Money mattered nothing.

Their income was enormous, and for a series of years,--for half-a-dozen years if the game could be kept up so long,--they could spend treble what they called their income without real injury to their children.

Visions passed through her brain of wondrous things which might be done,--if only her husband would be true to his own greatness.
The Duke had left her about two.

She did not stir out of the house that day, but in the course of the afternoon she wrote a line to a friend who lived not very far from her.

The Duchess dwelt in Carlton Terrace, and her friend in Park Lane.