It simply signified on his part the pleasure he had in being on good terms with a pretty woman.

He would have liked to have made love in the same way to Lady Ongar; but that was impossible, and in all love-making with Lady Ongar there must be danger.

There was a pause after the expression of his last hopes, during which he finished his tea, and then looked at his boots.
"You do not ask me what I have been doing at my country-house." "And what have you been doing there ?" "Hating it." "That is wrong." "Everything is wrong that I do; everything must be wrong.

That is the nature of the curse upon me." "You think too much of all that now." "Ah, Harry, that is so easily said.

People do not think of such things if they can help themselves.