But why am I thinking of marrying at all?
Because I am forty years old, and found a grey hair in my whiskers yesterday; because I am tired of an unsettled life, and should like to clear off the old place, and end my days there; and because, after all, a married man has a better position than a single one.

If that girl Gladys were in the place of either heiress, I would not hesitate a moment.

I declare she would grace a coronet; no wonder all the young men round are in love with her.

And yet, meet her when I will, I can scarcely get more than 'yes,' and 'no,' out of her.
'It is utterly impossible she can be what she seems, or is supposed to be.

I never saw more thoroughly aristocratic beauty in our most aristocratic circles.