Madame Goesler in her time had declined to marry an English peer.

There was, therefore, something more of interest in the conversation to each of them than was quite expressed in the words spoken.

"Is she to be at your party on Friday, Lady Glencora ?" asked Madame Goesler.
"She has said she would come,--and so has Lord Fawn; for that matter, Lord Fawn dines with us.

She'll find that out, and then she'll stay away." "Not she," said Lady Chiltern.

"She'll come for the sake of the bravado.