What we're looking on at is a complete transformation of the idea of marriage----" A movement in the crowd bore the speaker away.

The General was left watching the beautiful pair in the distance.

They were apparently quite unconscious that they roused any special attention.

Laughing and chatting like two children, they passed into the supper-room and disappeared.
Ten minutes later, in the supper-room, Barnes deserted the two ladies with whom he had entered, and went in pursuit of a girl in white, whose necklace of star sapphires, set in a Spanish setting of the seventeenth century, had at once caught the eye of the judicious.

Roger, however, knew nothing of jewels, and was only conscious as he approached Miss Floyd, first of the mingling in his own mind of something like embarrassment with something like defiance, and then, of the glitter in the girl's dark eyes.
"I hope you had an interesting debate," he said.