I never heard a word to his disparagement, even from those people who pretend to know something bad about everybody.

What a husband he would make for one of your girls!' 'Admirable! But those perfect arrangements, which seem predestined by heaven itself, are so rarely realised on earth,' answered the dowager, lightly.
She was not going to show her cards, even to an old friend.
'Well, it would be very sweet if they were to meet next season and fall in love with each other,' said Lady Kirkbank.

'He is enormously rich, and I daresay your girls will not be portionless.' 'Lesbia may take a modest place among heiresses,' answered Lady Maulevrier.

'I have lived so quietly during the last forty years that I could hardly help saving money.' 'How nice!' sighed Georgie.

'I never saved sixpence in my life, and am always in debt.' 'The little fortune I have saved is much too small for division.