What part of him had she appealed to?
Well, thank God, that was over and done with, and he was perfectly free to make his discoveries in regard to Zara, his future wife! "I tell you what, Francis," he said presently, after the conversation had drifted from these topics and cigars and liqueurs had come, "I would like my cousin Ethelrida to meet Countess Shulski pretty soon.

I don't know why, but I believe the two would get on." "There is no use suggesting any meetings until my niece returns from Paris," the financier said.

"She will be in a different mood by then.
She had not, when she came to England, quite put off her mourning; she will then have beautiful clothes, and be more acquiescent in every way.
Now she would be antagonistic.

See her this afternoon and be sensible; make up your mind to postpone things, until her return.

And even then be careful until she is your wife!" Lord Tancred looked disappointed.