'It isn't fair that he should be made a victim.' 'Oh, well, it isn't altogether Biddy's fault that she attracts all types of men.' And then Lady Tallant made exactly the same remark as Lady Bridget.

'I think Mr McKeith is quite able to look after himself.
I don't pity him in the least.

Didn't somebody say of Lady Something or Other that to love her was a liberal education ?' 'Steele said it of Lady Elizabeth Hastings.' 'I call it a liberal education for Colin McKeith to love Lady Bridget O'Hara,' laughed Lady Tallant.
Mrs Gildea changed her tactics and voiced her other fear--a more insistent fear.
'Has it ever occurred to you that Lady Bridget O'Hara might fall in love with Colin McKeith ?' 'Why, my dear, she's wildly in love with him already,' rejoined Lady Tallant, to Joan Gildea's surprise.
'You've seen it ?' 'I'm not blind, and I know Biddy.

But I've seen that she's taking this affair differently from the others, and that's what makes me think it has gone deeper.

A very good thing for Biddy.' 'You can't mean that it would be a good thing for Biddy to marry Colin McKeith ?' Lady Tallant's social manner was rather full of affectations.
Underneath it, however, lay commonsense and sympathy.