No ball or soiree, no dance or concert was considered complete without them.

Artists sketched them together as "Lily and Rose," "Night and Morning," "Sunlight and Moonlight." Poets indited sonnets to them; friends and admirers thronged around them.

As Beatrice said, with a deep-drawn sigh of perfect contentment, "This is life"-- and she reveled in it.
That same year the Earl of Airlie attained his majority, and became the center of all fashionable interest.

Whether he would marry and whom he would be likely to marry were two questions that interested every mother and daughter in Belgravia.

There had not been such an eligible parti for many years.