"I should say she had at least earned the benefit of the doubt." "I mean," said Lady Selina, "was she in love with anybody else, and was the poacher an excuse ?" She turned upon him as she spoke--a smiling, self-possessed person--a little spoilt by those hard, inquisitive eyes.
"No, I think not," said Wharton, throwing his head back to meet her scrutiny.

"If so, nothing has been heard of him yet.

Miss Boyce has been at St.Edward's Hospital for the last year." "To learn nursing?
It is what all the women do nowadays, they tell me, who can't get on with their relations or their lovers.

Do you suppose it is such a very hard life ?" "I don't want to try!" said Wharton.

"Do you ?" She evaded his smile.
"What is she going to do when she has done her training ?" "Settle down and nurse among the poor, I believe." "Magnificent, no doubt, but hardly business, from her point of view.