She accepted all, but gave none.

Once or twice her flirtations had been on the verge, but Lady Amelie was one of those who can look very steadily over the brink but never fall in.
The world spoke well of her.

"She was certainly a great coquette," people said, indulgently, but then she was so beautiful and so much admired.

She smiles as she reads the fashionable intelligence; there is a paragraph describing her appearance at a ball given by one of the queens of society.

The paper speaks of her beauty, her magnificent dress and costly jewels.