They get on very well for a married couple." "All the same she doesn't love him." "He loves her, for I'm sure he's that jealous that he can't scarcely bear her out of his sight." "It seems to me that he can," remarked Mrs.Belgrove dryly.

"Since he is at Paris or Pekin and she is here." "Garvington is looking after her, and he owes Sir Hubert too much, not to see that Agnes is all right." Mrs.Belgrove peered at Lady Garvington through her lorgnette.

"I think you talk a great deal of nonsense, Jane, as I said before," she observed.

"I don't suppose for one moment that Agnes thinks of Noel, or Noel of Agnes." "Clara Greeby says--" "Oh, I know what she says and what she wishes.

She would like to get Noel into trouble with Sir Hubert over Agnes, simply because he will not marry her.