She is a respectable British female, and doesn't take things quite so easily as I do.

It is a dull life here.

No going into company--no company at home--not a creature sees my lord--not even the consul, or the banker.

When he goes out, he goes alone, and generally towards nightfall.

Indoors, he shuts himself up in his own room with his books, and sees as little of his wife and the Baron as possible.