You are dealing with a woman." The duke smiled with an air of the deepest self-satisfaction.
Compliments from the Honourable John Ruffin were indeed rare.
"Yes; that's what I thought," he said.

Then he chuckled, and added: "Won't Caroline be mad when she finds I'm running another Marion ?" "'Mad' isn't the word for it," said the Honourable John Ruffin with conviction.
"I shall certainly be getting a little of my own back," said the duke, beaming.
The Honourable John Ruffin frowned at him heavily and said in a tone of the coldest severity: "That's a stupid way of looking at it.

The important thing about your idea is that it will very likely bring you together again.

But I wonder if you can work it.

You won't find it an easy job." "It all depends on whether Mary Bride can take Marion's place," said the duke somewhat anxiously.
The Honourable John Ruffin looked at him queerly.