No Paradise could be too charming for her friends; no Pandemonium too frightful for her enemies.

In reference to Mr.Lopez she would have said, if interrogated, that she had taken the man up in obedience to her husband.

But in truth she had liked the look and the voice of the man.

Her husband before now had recommended men to her notice and kindness, whom at the first trial she had rejected from her good-will, and whom she had continued to reject ever afterwards, let her husband's urgency be what it might.
Another old friend, of whom former chronicles were not silent, was at the Duchess's that night, and there came across Mrs.Finn.This was Barrington Erle, a politician of long standing, who was still looked upon by many as a young man, because he had always been known as a young man, and because he had never done anything to compromise his position in that respect.

He had not married, or settled himself down in a house of his own, or become subject to gout, or given up being careful about the fitting of his clothes.