"We must have a meeting about it, and let the world know it,--that's all." At this moment the door was again opened, and Madame Goesler entered the room.
When one wants to be natural, of necessity one becomes the reverse of natural.

A clever actor,--or more frequently a clever actress,--will assume the appearance; but the very fact of the assumption renders the reality impossible.

Lady Chiltern was generally very clever in the arrangement of all little social difficulties, and, had she thought less about it, might probably have managed the present affair in an easy and graceful manner.

But the thing had weighed upon her mind, and she had decided that it would be expedient that she should say something when those two old friends first met each other again in her drawing-room.

"Madame Max," she said, "you remember Mr.Finn." Lord Chiltern for a moment stopped the torrent of his abuse.