That seems to be the great thing.

If you hear of any girl with about that sum, moderately good-looking, not too young so that she might know something of the world, decently born, and able to read and write, perhaps you will bear me in mind." "Yes, I will," said Alice, who was quite aware that he had made an accurate picture of her own position.

"When I meet such a one, I will send for you at once." "You know no such person now ?" "Well, no; not just at present." "I declare I don't think he could do anything better," her cousin said to her that night.

Lady Glencora was now in the habit of having Alice with her in what she called her dressing-room every evening, and then they would sit till the small hours came upon them.

Mr Palliser always burnt the midnight oil and came to bed with the owls.
They would often talk of him and his prospects till Alice had perhaps inspired his wife with more of interest in him and them than she had before felt.