There's something rather etherealised about your face to-day.

I quite agree with Walderhurst in all the sentimental things he says about you." She said this last partly because she liked Emily and knew it would please her to hear that her husband went to the length of dwelling on her charms in his conversation with other people, partly because it entertained her to see the large creature's eyelids flutter and a big blush sweep her cheek.
"He really was in great luck when he discovered you," her ladyship went on briskly.

"As for that, I was in luck myself.

Suppose you had been a girl who could not have been left.

As Walderhurst is short of female relatives, it would have fallen to me to decently dry-nurse you.