I observe that Gerald wears that peculiarly speak-easy-please expression which is a healthy sign that he's being managed right from the beginning." "I had an idea she was all right," said Selwyn, smiling.
"Well, she is.

People will probably say that she 'made' Gerald.
However," added Austin modestly, "I shall never deny it--though you know what part I've had in the making and breaking of him, don't you ?" "Yes," replied Selwyn, without a smile.
Austin went to the telephone and called up his house at Silverside, saying that he'd be down that evening with a guest.
Nina got the message just as she had arranged her tables; but woman is born to sorrow and heiress to all the unlooked-for idiocies of man.
"Dear," she said to Eileen, the tears of uxorial vexation drying unshed in her pretty eyes, "Austin has thought fit to seize upon this moment to bring a man down to dinner.

So if you are dressed would you kindly see that the tables are rearranged, and then telephone somebody to fill in--two girls, you know.

The oldest Craig girl might do for one.

Beg her mother to let her come." Eileen was being laced, but she walked to the door of Nina's room, followed by her little Alsatian maid, who deftly continued her offices _en route_.
"Whom is Austin bringing ?" she asked.
"He didn't say.