I have none to love me.

In playing my cards, I have won my stakes in money and rank, but have lost the amount ten times told in affection, friendship, and that general unpronounced esteem which creates the fellowship of men and women in the world.

I have a carriage and horses, and am driven about with grand servants; and people, as they see me, whisper and say that is Lady Ongar, whom nobody knows.

I can see it in their eyes till I fancy that I can hear their words." "But it is all false." "What is false?
It is not false that I have deserved this.

I have done that which has made me a fitting companion for such a one as Sophie Gordeloup, though I have not done that which perhaps these people think." He paused again before he spoke, still standing near her on the rug.
"Lady Ongar--" he said.
"Nay, Harry; not Lady Ongar when we are together thus.