And he, accustomed to go his own way unhampered by the caprices of the gentle sex, agreed!--so under the dominion of love had he become! for a woman, too, who in herself combined three things he had always disliked.

She was an American, she was very young, and she had an equivocal position.

But the little god does not consult the individual before he shoots his darts, and punishes the most severely those who have denied his power.
By the time they had reached the Savoy, Sabine, with that aptitude, though it was perfectly unconscious in her, which is the characteristic of all her countrywomen, had reduced Lord Fordyce to complete subjection, so that he was ready to do any mortal thing in the world for her, and willing to grasp suggestions of hope upon any terms.
She gave him a friendly smile, and disappeared up the stairs to their sitting-room--there to find Moravia indulging in nerves.
"I just want to scream, darling!" that lady said, and Sabine patted her hands.
"Then don't, Morri, dearest," she implored her.

"You only want to because your mother, if she had been idle, would have wanted to scrub the floors--just as my father's business capacity came out in me just now, and I fenced with and sampled a very noble gentleman instead of being simple with him.

Let us get above our instincts--and be the real aristocrats we appear to the world!" But the Princess had to have some sal volatile.
That night after dinner waywardness was upon Sabine.