Her light blue eyes were very direct and observant.

Their expression implied both considerable knowledge of the world and a natural inquisitiveness.
Many persons indeed were of opinion that Lady Selina wished to know too much about you and were on their guard when she approached.
"You admired her very much, I see," she resumed, as Wharton still remained silent.
"Oh, yes.

We talked Socialism, and then I defended her poacher for her." "Oh, I remember.

And it is really true, as Miss Raeburn says, that she broke it off because she could not get Lord Maxwell and Mr.Raeburn to sign the petition for the poacher ?" "Somewhere about true," said Wharton, carelessly.
"Miss Raeburn always gives the same account; you can never get anything else out of her.

But I sometimes wonder whether it is the _whole_ truth.
_You_ think she was sincere ?" "Well, she gave up Maxwell Court and thirty thousand a year," he replied drily.