What did all this mean?
"It means," Lady Myrie interposed, "what we poor women are all exposed to--scandal." She had not yet forgiven Mr.Romsey's allusion, and she looked at him pointedly as she spoke.

There are some impenetrable men on whom looks produce no impression.

Mr.Romsey was one of them.

He turned to his wife, and said, quietly: "What I mean is, that I know more of Mrs.Norman than you do.

I have heard of her--never mind how or where.
She is a lady who has been celebrated in the newspapers.