When there were women in the room whom she disliked she merely went and stood beside them.

In the gyrations of the dance the onlooker would momentarily lose sight of her; she came and went like a blinking candle.

Men could not dance with her without its being said that they were getting stout.

There is nothing they dislike so much, yet they did dance with her.

Tommy, having some slight reason, was particularly sensitive about references to his figure, yet it was Lady Pippinworth who had drawn him to Switzerland.