His wife found him selfish, peevish, hankering after change, and prone to believe that he was attacked by dangerous disease when he was only catching cold.
Lady Brandon, who believed that he understood all the subjects he talked about because she did not understand them herself, was one of his disappointments.

In person she resembled none of the types of beauty striven after by the painters of her time, but she had charms to which few men are insensible.

She was tall, soft, and stout, with ample and shapely arms, shoulders, and hips.

With her small head, little ears, pretty lips, and roguish eye, she, being a very large creature, presented an immensity of half womanly, half infantile loveliness which smote even grave men with a desire to clasp her in their arms and kiss her.

This desire had scattered the desultory intellectual culture of Sir Charles at first sight.