Cards, bets, loans arranged, and that kind of thing.

All the same, he had his good points when I first knew him." "But after such a life as his daughter must have led, do you consider her a suitable person to take about with you?
What do your friends think?
They have to receive her now and then." "I can't say that I have much cause to respect my friends' opinions, and I'm not afraid of the girl's contaminating me," Mrs.Keith replied.
"Besides, Millicent lost her mother early and lived with her aunts until a few months before her father's death.

I expect Eustace felt more embarrassed than grateful when she came to take care of him, but, to do him justice, he would see that none of the taint of his surroundings rested on the girl.

He did wrong, but I think he paid for it, and it is better to be charitable." She broke off, and glanced down at the big liner with cream-colored funnel that was slowly swinging across the stream.
"I must send Millicent to buy our tickets for Montreal," she said.
"The hotel will be crowded before long with that steamer's noisy passengers.

I shall be glad to escape from it all.