"It is something to have the sympathy of men high placed in the world. And as to Lady Glencora, I do love her dearly. She just comes up to my beau-ideal of what a woman should be,—disinterested, full of spirit, affectionate, with a dash of romance about her."
"A great dash of romance, I fancy."
"And a determination to be something in the world. Lady Glencora Palliser is something."
"She is awfully rich, Lizzie."
"I suppose so. At any rate, that is no disgrace. And then, Frank, somebody else came."
"Lord Fawn was to have come."
"He did come."
"And how did it go between you?"
"Ah,—that will be so difficult to explain. I wish you had been behind the curtain to hear it all. It is so necessary that you should know, and yet it is so hard to tell. I spoke up to him, and was quite high-spirited."
"I daresay you were."