All that lace and love knot arrangement, the gold-backed brushes and scent bottles with diamonds and rubies sticking in them." "They--they were wedding presents.

They came from Tiffany's.

Everyone thought them lovely." "They look as if they belonged to the dressing table of a French woman of the demi-monde.

I feel as if I had actually walked into the apartment of some notorious Parisian soubrette." Rosalie Vanderpoel was a clean-minded little person, her people were of the clean-minded type, therefore she did not understand all that this ironic speech implied, but she gathered enough of its significance to cause her to turn first red and then pale and then to burst into tears.
She was crying and trying to conceal the fact when Hannah returned.
She bent her head and touched her eyes furtively while her toilette was completed.
Sir Nigel had retired from the scene, but he had done so feeling that he had planted a seed and bestowed a practical lesson.

He had, it is true, bestowed one, but again she had not understood its significance and was only left bewildered and unhappy.