They say she is a good sort and was frightfully poor herself." "She won't be poor now, hang her!" remarked Captain Osborn with added fervour.

"I should like to break her neck! I wonder if she rides ?" "I'm sure she has not been well enough off to do anything like that." "Good idea to begin to teach her." And he laughed as he turned on his heel and began to walk the deck with a fellow passenger.
It was these people Lord Walderhurst had come to prepare her for.
"Maria has told you about them, I know," he said.

"I dare say she has been definite enough to explain that I consider Osborn altogether undesirable.

Under the veneer of his knowledge of decent customs he is a cad.

I am obliged to behave civilly to the man, but I dislike him.