"It will be just a crush, dear.

But I promised various people to go." "And he will be there ?" "I suppose so." Daphne turned her head away, and then sprang up.

"Have you seen the picture ?" Mrs.Verrier followed her into the inner room, where the girl gave a laughing and triumphant account of her acquisition, the agents she had employed, the skill with which it had been conveyed out of Italy, the wrath of various famous collectors, who had imagined that the fight lay between them alone, when they found the prize had been ravished from them.

Madeleine Verrier was very intelligent, and the contrast, which the story brought out, between the girl's fragile youth and the strange and passionate sense of power which breathed from her whenever it became a question of wealth and the use of it, was at no point lost upon her companion.
Daphne would not allow any further talk of Roger Barnes.

Her chaperon, Mrs.Phillips, presently appeared, and passed through rather a bad quarter of an hour while the imperious mistress of the house inquired into certain invitations and card-leavings that had not been managed to her liking.