In England what does that, mean ?" "I am one of the Duke's secretaries," I answered.
"Is the Duke, then, a politician ?" she asked, "that he needs secretaries ?" "Not at all," I answered drily.

"His Grace is President of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, or Children, whichever you like.

We have a large correspondence." She picked up her book.
"I am afraid that I understand you," she said.

"You have a good deal of the brutality of youth, Guy, and, I might add, of its credulity also.
Whose word is it, I wonder, that you have taken so abjectly--with such an open mouth?
If I have enemies I have not deserved them.

But, after all, it matters little." We did not speak again until we neared the junction.