So two or three days later he called on the Countess to open the campaign.

It was not altogether new ground, as they had crossed together once before.

The Duke was not very good at leading the conversation up to his points, so he immediately began talking about America, in order to be sure of hitting somewhere near the mark.
"I have not been over since the autumn," he said, "and I really ought to go." "When will you start ?" asked Margaret.
"I meant to go next month.

I think I will take the yacht." "I wonder you do not always do that.

It is so much pleasanter, and you feel as if you never had gone out of your own house." "The fact is," said he, plunging, "I am going to take my sister, and I would like to have a little party.