He was more or less disreputable, she believed, but he was none the less welcome on that account.

It was just such men as he who knew how to make things a success.

She relied upon the disreputable more than she would have admitted.
"Egad, I'm no novice in most things!" declared the court jester, waving his wand bombastically.

"But it's the magic of a pretty woman that I'm after at the present moment.

These masks, Lady Blythebury, are uncommon inconvenient.