"I don't care much about anything in the world except you." She turned her head slowly and looked at him.

Its angle was supercilious, her tone frigid.
"That sort of a speech may pass for polite conversation in your country, Mr.Lane.We do not understand it in mine." "Don't your men ever tell your women that they love them ?" he asked bluntly.
"If they are of the same order," she said, "if the thing is at all possible, it may sometimes be done.

Marriage, however, is more a matter of alliance with us.

Our servants, I believe, are quite promiscuous in their love-making." He was silent for a moment.

She may, perhaps, have felt some compunction.