Her grandmother had been a St.Pierre; but it was not from that lady that she inherited a certain open-handedness which took her French friends by surprise.
"It is not that she has the cause at heart," commented Madame de Chantonnay, as she walked laboriously on Albert's arm down the ramp of the Chateau de Gemosac at the termination of the meeting.

"It is not for that that she throws her note of a thousand francs upon the table and promises more when things are in train.

It is because she can refuse nothing to Dormer Colville.

Allez, my son! I have a woman's heart! I know!" Albert contented himself with a sardonic laugh.

He was not in the humour to talk of women's hearts; for Mrs.St.Pierre Lawrence's action had struck a sudden note of British realism into the harmony of his political fancies.