Nothing could have been more adequate, more nicely measured, than his courtesy to his wife's old friend.

It was punctilious, it was explicit, it was everything but natural--a deficiency which Lord Warburton, who, himself, had on the whole a good deal of nature, may be supposed to have perceived.

"I'll leave you and Mrs.Osmond together," he added.

"You have reminiscences into which I don't enter." "I'm afraid you lose a good deal!" Lord Warburton called after him, as he moved away, in a tone which perhaps betrayed overmuch an appreciation of his generosity.

Then the visitor turned on Isabel the deeper, the deepest, consciousness of his look, which gradually became more serious.
"I'm really very glad to see you." "It's very pleasant.