Mr Elliot was better to look at than most men, and he had no objection to being seen with him anywhere." Mr Elliot, and his friends in Marlborough Buildings, were talked of the whole evening.

"Colonel Wallis had been so impatient to be introduced to them! and Mr Elliot so anxious that he should!" and there was a Mrs Wallis, at present known only to them by description, as she was in daily expectation of her confinement; but Mr Elliot spoke of her as "a most charming woman, quite worthy of being known in Camden Place," and as soon as she recovered they were to be acquainted.

Sir Walter thought much of Mrs Wallis; she was said to be an excessively pretty woman, beautiful.

"He longed to see her.

He hoped she might make some amends for the many very plain faces he was continually passing in the streets.