_"Mon Dieu!_ how often I have heard of that!" This was not what he had expected.

There was no empty boast about the speech, as there would have been if Laura Highford had uttered it--she was fond of demonstrating her conquests and power in words.

There was only a weariness as of something banal and tiring.

He must be more careful.
"Yes, I quite understand," he said sympathetically.

"You must be bored with the love of men." "I have never seen any love of men.