They looked at Godfrey with admiration.

Truly he must be a remarkable youth who was thus able to attract the love of the wealthy.
An idea occurred to Madame.

Why should he not marry Juliette?
She was vivacious and pretty, fit in every way to become a great lady, even perhaps to adorn the lovely Villa Ogilvy in future years.

She would have a word with Juliette, and show her where fortune lay.

If the girl had any wit it should be as good as assured, for with her opportunities---- And so, doubtless, it might have chanced had it not been for a certain determined and unconventional young woman far away in England, of whom the persistent memory, however much he might flirt, quite prevented Godfrey from falling in love, as otherwise he ought to, and indeed, probably must have done at his age and in his circumstances.
Perhaps Miss Juliette, who although young was no fool, also had ideas upon the subject, at any rate at this time, especially as she had found _l'Hibou_ always attractive, notwithstanding his star-gazing ways, and the shower of wealth that had descended on him as though direct from the _Bon Dieu_, did not lessen his charms.