How much more she might have done for the poor with thirty thousand a year! And any woman could put up with Aldous Raeburn." Wharton shrugged his shoulders.
"We come back to those feelings, Lady Selina, you think so badly of." She laughed.
"Well, but feelings must be intelligible.

And this seems so small a cause.

However, were you there when it was broken off ?" "No; I have never seen her since the day of the poacher's trial." "Oh! So she has gone into complete seclusion from all her friends ?" "That I can't answer for.

I can only tell you my own experience." Lady Selina bethought herself of a great many more questions to ask, but somehow did not ask them.

The talk fell upon politics, which lasted till the hostess gave the signal, and Lady Selina, gathering up her fan and gloves, swept from the room next after the Countess at the head of the table, while a host of elderly ladies, wives of ministers and the like, stood meekly by to let her pass.
As he sat down again, Wharton made the entry of the dinner at Alresford House, to which he had just promised himself, a little plainer.