No one is easier to deceive than a woman to whom a man is in the habit of telling everything; she has no suspicions; she thinks she sees and hears and knows all.

Besides, since her return, Nathan had led the most regular of lives under her very nose.

Never did she imagine that that portfolio, which she hardly glanced at as it lay there unconcealed, contained the letters of a rival, treasures of admiring love which the countess addressed, at Raoul's request, to the office of his newspaper.
Nathan's situation was, therefore, to all appearance, extremely brilliant.

He had many friends.

The two plays lately produced had succeeded well, and their proceeds supplied his personal wants and relieved him of all care for the future.