Mr.Hammond is a gentlemanlike person, very well informed, very agreeable.

I have never denied that.
But you could not expect me to allow my granddaughter to throw herself away upon the first adventurer who made her an offer.' 'Hammond is not an adventurer.' 'Very well, I will not call him so, if the term offends you.

But Mr.
Hammond is--Mr.Hammond, and I cannot allow Lesbia to marry Mr.Hammond or Mr.Anybody, and I am very sorry you have brought him here again.
There is Mary, a silly, romantic girl.

I am very much afraid he has made an impression upon her.

She colours absurdly when she talks of him, and flew into a passion with me the other day when I ventured to hint that he is not a Rothschild, and that his society must be expensive to you.' 'His society does not cost me anything.