Have you tried?
I cannot quite admit the possibility of failure." Millicent Chyne smiled.

He had emphasised the last remark with lover-like glance and tone.

She was young enough; her own beauty was new enough to herself to blind her to the possibility mentioned.

She had not even got to the stage of classifying as dull all men who did not fall in love with her at first sight.

It was her first season, one must remember.
"I have not tried very hard," she said.