Do you suppose our host succeeds?
You perceive ?--this is a Radical house--and a Radical banquet ?" He pushed the _menu_ towards her significantly.

Then his eye travelled with its usual keen rapidity over the room, over the splendid dinner-table, with its display of flowers and plate, and over the assembled guests.

He and Lady Selina were dining at the hospitable board of a certain rich manufacturer, who drew enormous revenues from the west, had formed part of the Radical contingent of the last Liberal ministry, and had especially distinguished himself by a series of uncompromising attacks on the ground landlords of London.
Lady Selina sighed.
"It is all a horrible tangle," she said, "and what the next twenty years will bring forth who can tell?
Oh! one moment, Mr.Wharton, before I forget.

Are you engaged for Saturday week ?" He drew a little note-book out of his pocket and consulted it.

It appeared that he was not engaged.
"Then will you dine with us ?" She lightly mentioned the names of four or five distinguished guests, including the Conservative Premier of the day.