I'm very glad for my own sake that you're to marry Osmond; but I won't pretend I'm glad for yours.

You're very brilliant--you know that's the way you're always spoken of; you're an heiress and very good-looking and original, not banal; so it's a good thing to have you in the family.
Our family's very good, you know; Osmond will have told you that; and my mother was rather distinguished--she was called the American Corinne.
But we're dreadfully fallen, I think, and perhaps you'll pick us up.
I've great confidence in you; there are ever so many things I want to talk to you about.

I never congratulate any girl on marrying; I think they ought to make it somehow not quite so awful a steel trap.

I suppose Pansy oughtn't to hear all this; but that's what she has come to me for--to acquire the tone of society.

There's no harm in her knowing what horrors she may be in for.