He was introduced in a rush of words by the hostess, but beyond the fact that it was a monosyllable, Alice did not catch his name.
Lord Manorwater took in Miss Afflint, and Alice fell to the dark man with the monosyllabic name.

He had a way of bowing over his hand which slightly repelled the girl, who had no taste for elaborate manners.

His first question, too, displeased her.

He asked her if she was one of the Wisharts of some unpronounceable place.
She replied briefly that she did not know.

Her grandfathers on both sides had been farmers.
The gentleman bowed with the smiling unconcern of one to whom pedigree is a matter of course.
"I have heard often of your father," he said.