"He is a very clever man, and he has been a lawyer.

That sort of person knows how to ask questions--to--find out things." "Rubbish!" the woman remarked, sitting up on the couch.

"Why do you try to make me so uncomfortable, Hester?
Sir Leslie may be very clever, but I am not exactly a fool myself." She spoke confidently, but under the delicate coating of rouge her cheeks had whitened.
"Besides," she continued, "Sir Leslie has never even mentioned Mr.
Mannering's name in anything except the most casual way.

You don't understand everything, Hester.

Of course Lena and Billy Aswell and Rothe and all of them are all right, but they are just a little--well, you would call it fast, and it does one good to be seen with a different set sometimes.