Lord Baldock made a little effort to look uninterested, but quite in vain.
Mr.Spooner stood on one side.

Lady Baldock stared with all her eyes,--with some feeling of instinct that there would be something to see; and Gerard Maule, rising from the sofa, joined the circle.

It seemed as though Lady Chiltern's words had caused the formation of a ring in the midst of which Phineas and Madame Goesler were to renew their acquaintance.
"Very well indeed," said Madame Max, putting out her hand and looking full into our hero's face with her sweetest smile.

"And I hope Mr.
Finn will not have forgotten me." She did it admirably--so well that surely she need not have thought of running away.
But poor Phineas was not happy.

"I shall never forget you," said he; and then that unavoidable blush suffused his face, and the blood began to career through his veins.
"I am so glad you are in Parliament again," said Madame Max.
"Yes;--I've got in again, after a struggle.