Apprehension of situations was not one of his strong qualities.
"Of course I do!" Laura snapped out and then laughed.

"But you men! Money would tempt any of you!" "You may bet your last farthing, Lady Highford, Tristram is in love--crazy, if you ask me--he'd not have been so silent about it all otherwise.

The Canada affair was probably because she was playing the poor old chap,--and now she's given in; and that, of course, is chucked." Money, as the motive, Lady Highford could have borne, but, to hear about love drove her wild! Her little pink and white face with its carefully arranged childish setting suddenly looked old and strained, while her eyes grew yellow in the light.
"They won't be happy long, then!" she said.

"Tristram could not be faithful to any one." "I don't think he's ever been in love before, so we can't judge," the blundering cousin continued, now with malice prepense.

"He's had lots of little affairs, but they have only been 'come and go.'" Lady Highford crumbled her bread and then turned to the Duke--there was nothing further to be got out of this quarter.