Never saw them so thick." "Was Lady Caroom--quite well ?" Arranmore asked, irrelevantly.
"Well, now you mention it," Molyneux said, "I don't think she was quite in her usual form.

She was much quieter, and it struck me that she was aging a bit.

Wonderful woman, though.

She and Sybil were quite inseparable at Chelsom--more like sisters than anything, 'pon my word." Lord Arranmore looked into the fire, and was silent for several minutes.
"So far as regards Brooks," he said, "I do not think that he would be an acceptable son-in-law to Lady Caroom, but I am not in the least sure.
He is by no means an insignificant person.

If he were really anxious to marry Sybil Caroom, he would be a rival worth consideration.