She was kept innocent, that is she was kept safe, by her egotism, but she was helped also, though she had now put off her mourning, by the attitude of the lone orphan who had to be a law unto herself.

It was as a lone orphan that she came and went, as a lone orphan that she was the centre of a crush.

The neglect of the Hammond Synges gave relief to this character, and she made it worth their while to be, as every one said, too shocking.

Lord Iffield had gone to India to shoot tigers, but he returned in time for the punctual private view: it was he who had snapped up, as Flora called it, the gem of the exhibition.

My hope for the girl's future had slipped ignominiously off his back, but after his purchase of the portrait I tried to cultivate a new faith.