A clever woman moves as much of it as lies in her neighborhood--that is to say, as much as she cares to rule.

For women love power, but they do not care to wield it at a distance.
Paul was asked to take Mrs.Sydney Bamborough down to dinner by the lady herself.
"Mon ami," she said in a quiet aside to De Chauxville, before making her request, "it is the first time the prince dines here." She spoke in French.

Maggie and Paul were talking together at the other end of the room.

De Chauxville bowed in silence.
At dinner the conversation was necessarily general, and, as such, is not worth reporting.

No general conversation, one finds, is of much value when set down in black and white.