Her black eyes sparkled; impetuosity and will shone from them; although they showed also rims of fatigue, as if Miss Daphne's nights had not of late been all they should be.

Mrs.Verrier was chiefly struck, however, by the perception that for the first time Daphne was not having altogether her own way with the world.

Madeleine had not observed anything of the same kind in her before.

In general she was in entire command both of herself and of the men who surrounded her.
She made a little court out of them, and treated them _en despote_.

But Roger Barnes had not lent himself to the process; he had not played the game properly; and Daphne's sleep had been disturbed for the first time in history.
It had been admitted very soon between the two friends--without putting it very precisely--that Daphne was interested in Roger Barnes.