But I should have thought that such a man as Mr Longestaffe might have kept such another man as Mr Melmotte out of his wife's drawing-room.' Henrietta became redder than ever.
Even Lady Carbury flushed up, as she remembered that Roger Carbury knew that she had taken her daughter to Madame Melmotte's ball.

He thought of this himself as soon as the words were spoken, and then tried to make some half apology.

'I don't approve of them in London, you know; but I think they are very much worse in the country.' Then there was a movement.

The ladies were shown into their rooms, and Roger again went out into the garden.

He began to feel that he understood it all.