She is a puzzle such as I have never known." "Nor are you apt to know another her like.

Look, here she is, the paid spy, the secret agent, of England.

Additionally, she is intimately concerned with the private life of Mr.Pakenham.For the love of adventure, she is engaged in intrigue also with Mexico.

Not content with that, born adventuress, eager devourer of any hazardous and interesting intellectual offering, any puzzle, any study, any intrigue--she comes at midnight to talk with me, whom she knows to be the representative of yet a third power!" "And finds you in your red nightcap!" I laughed.
"Did she speak of that ?" asked Mr.Calhoun in consternation, raising a hand to his head.

"It may be that I forgot--but none the less, she came! "Yes, as I said, she came, by virtue of your long legs and your ready way, as I must admit; and you were saved from her only, as I believe--Why, God bless Elisabeth Churchill, my boy, that is all! But my faith, how nicely it all begins to work out!" "I do not share your enthusiasm, Mr.Calhoun," said I bitterly.