Not to be looked at, but to be read about in the newspapers, was his ambition.

Men said that he was to be Chancellor of the Exchequer, and no one thought of suggesting that the insignificance of his face would stand in his way.
"Are the people all out ?" his wife asked him.
"The men have not come in from shooting;--at least I think not;--and some of the ladies are driving, I suppose.

But I haven't seen anybody since you went." "Of course you haven't.

He never has time, Alice, to see any one.
But we'll go up-stairs, dear.

I told them to let us have tea in my dressing-room, as I thought you'd like that better than going into the drawing-room before you had taken off your things.