At this moment she was free from all marital persecution, and was very much run after by a certain set in society.

There were others again who declared that no decent man or woman ought to meet her.

On the score of lovers there was really little or nothing to be said against her; but she had implicated herself in an unfortunate second marriage, and then there was that old story about the jewels! But there was no doubt about her money and her good looks, and some considered her to be clever.

These completed the list of Mrs.Roby's great dinner party.
Mr.Wharton, who had arrived early, could not but take notice that Lopez, who soon followed him into the room, had at once fallen into conversation with Emily, as though there had never been any difficulty in the matter.

The father, standing on the rug and pretending to answer the remarks made to him by Dick Roby, could see that Emily said but little.