She is so new to London that she doesn't know who's who yet in the least.

I had to take her aside and explain to her Forbes's honours; then she fired up--there is a naive hero-worship about her just now that she is fresh from a colony--and made herself as pleasant to him as a girl could be.

I prophesy Forbes will think of nothing else for the season.' 'Well, she's a brilliant creature,' said Kendal.

'It's extraordinary how she shone out beside the pretty English girls about her.

It is an intoxicating possession for a woman, such beauty as that; it's like royalty; it places the individual under conditions quite unlike those of common mortals.