"When I asked her whether she should come on here she laughed a little nervously, and said perhaps or something of that sort." "The fool may have bungled it," Lady Carey said thoughtfully.

"I will go back to him.

There's that idiot of a partner of mine.

I must go and pretend to have some supper." Captain Horton found his vis-a-vis a somewhat unsatisfactory companion.
She drank several glasses of champagne, ate scarcely anything, and rushed him away before he had taken the edge off his appetite.

He brought her to the Duchess and went back in a huff to finish his supper alone.