He had quiet, ingratiating manners, always spoke in a gentle smiling way and had a good word to say for everyone, especially for women; he was a bachelor, too, and wholly unattached.

He surprised me by taking up Grenfell's praise and breaking into a lyric: "The best talker who ever lived," he said; "most extraordinary.

I am so infinitely obliged to you for asking me to meet him--a new delight.
He brings a supernal air into life.

I am in truth indebted to you"-- all this in an affected purring tone.

I noticed for the first time that there was a touch of rouge on his face; Grenfell turned away from us rather abruptly I thought.
At this first roseate dawn of complete success and universal applause, new qualities came to view in Oscar.