Michael he saw plainly all the time, and perceived that he was not boring himself.
"Her character, then, would seem to have been rather like my friend's, Michael Arranstoun's," he remarked.

"They have both such an astonishing, penetrating vitality, one would almost know when either of them was in the room even if one could not see them." "He is awfully good-looking and attractive, your friend," Moravia returned.

"I have never seen such bold, devil-may-care blue eyes.

I suppose women adore him; I personally have got over my interest in that sort of man.

I much prefer courteous and more diffident creatures." Lord Fordyce smiled.
"Yes, I believe women spoil Michael terribly, and he is perfectly ruthless with them, too; but I understand that they like that sort of thing." "Yes--most of them do.