All the same, the fellow's rather a puzzle.

I can't help wondering how he succeeded in making such an easy conquest of a lady who has scarcely been notorious for her flirtations, and a young woman who is madly in love with another man.

He hasn't--" "Hasn't what ?" "He hasn't," Sir Henry continued, blowing out the match which he had been holding to his cigarette and throwing it away, "been in the position of being able to render you or Helen any service, has he ?" "I don't understand you," Philippa replied, a little uneasily.
"There's nothing to understand," Sir Henry went on.

"I was simply trying to find some explanation for his veni, vidi, vici." "I don't think you need go any further than the fact," Philippa observed, "that he is well-bred, charming and companionable." "Incidentally," Sir Henry queried, "do you happen to have come across any one here who ever heard of him before ?" "I don't remember any one," Philippa replied.

"He was at college with Richard, you know." Sir Henry nodded.
"Of course, that's a wonderful introduction to you and Helen," he admitted.