"If no one else wants me, I shall probably marry him myself some day." Naida shook her head.
"Lord Dorminster is more my type," she declared.

"Besides, you have had your chance if you really wanted him.

I have a great friend in Russia who prophesies that I shall never marry.

That does not please me.

I think not to be married is the worst fate that can happen to any woman." "The remedy," Nigel told her, "is in your own hands." Jesson, quieter than the others, was still an interesting personality, often intervening with a shrewd remark and listening to the sallies of the others with a humorous gleam in his spectacle-shielded eyes.