"But I want to say a word to you, Rick, about Claudia.

I can't stand this much longer." "I wouldn't," said Rickmansworth, "if I were you; but it isn't my fault." "It's absurd treating me like this because of Stafford's affair." "Well, why don't you go and call in Grosvenor Square?
She's there with Aunt Julia." "I will.

Do you think she'll see me ?" "My dear fellow, I don't know; only if I wanted to see a girl, I bet she'd see me." Eugene smiled at his friend's indomitable self-confidence, and let him fly to the arms of pleuro-pneumonia.

He then dispensed with his own presence in his branch of the Legislature, and took his way toward Grosvenor Square, where Lord Rickmansworth's town house was.
Lady Claudia was not at home.

She had gone with her aunt earlier in the day to give Mr.Morewood a sitting.