"You seem to me, after all, very much the same." "And yet I find it a great change to be married," said Isabel with mild gaiety.
"It affects most people more than it has affected you.

You see I haven't gone in for that." "It rather surprises me." "You ought to understand it, Mrs.Osmond.But I do want to marry," he added more simply.
"It ought to be very easy," Isabel said, rising--after which she reflected, with a pang perhaps too visible, that she was hardly the person to say this.

It was perhaps because Lord Warburton divined the pang that he generously forbore to call her attention to her not having contributed then to the facility.
Edward Rosier had meanwhile seated himself on an ottoman beside Pansy's tea-table.

He pretended at first to talk to her about trifles, and she asked him who was the new gentleman conversing with her stepmother.
"He's an English lord," said Rosier.

"I don't know more." "I wonder if he'll have some tea.