But it is a shame to carry you off from so many friends.' 'Mind?
Why, I have ordered supper for you in my rooms, and it is just midnight.

I hope these people will have the sense to go soon.

Now then, for a cab.' They alighted at the gate of the Temple, and, as they walked across the quadrangle under a sky still heavy with storm-clouds, Madame de Chateauvieux said to her brother with a sigh: 'Well, it has been a great event.

I never remember anything more exciting, or more successful.

But there is one thing, I think, that would make me happier than a hundred Elviras, and that is to see Isabel Bretherton the wife of a man she loved!' Then a smile broke over her face as she looked at her brother.
'Do you know, Eustace, I quite made up my mind from those first letters of yours in May, in spite of your denials, that you were very deeply taken with her?
I remember quite seriously discussing the pros and cons of it with myself.' The words were said so lightly, they betrayed so clearly the speaker's conviction that she had made a foolish mistake, that they stung Kendal to the quick.