"And the result ?" the Duchess asked.
"The result I fear you would scarcely consider satisfactory," the Prince declared.

"The moment that I hinted at the existence of--er--conditions of which you, Duchess, are aware, he showed alarm, and I had all that I could do to reassure him.

I find it everywhere amongst your aristocracy--this stubborn confidence in the existence of the reigning order of things, this absolute detestation of anything approaching intrigue." "My dear man, I hope you don't include me," Lady Carey exclaimed.
"You, Lady Muriel," he answered, with a slow smile, "are an exception to all rules.

No, you are a rule by yourself." "To revert to the subject then for a moment," the Duchess said stiffly.
"You have made no progress with the Duke ?" "None whatever," Saxe Leinitzer admitted.

"He was sufficiently emphatic to inspire me with every caution.