'She has now been out for seven or eight seasons—even more, I think—and is getting quite passé!
'Yet she is much admired; besides, Clare, it is not her place to make proposals.'
'Of course not.'
'Nor is it every proposal she would accept, any more than yourself,' said the baronet, with a loftiness of manner.
'She seems to dazzle without touching men's hearts.'
'Indeed!'
'Papa, how sententious you have become! But really I don't think Evelyn will ever be married at all.'
'Time will show, Clare—time will show,' chuckled Sir Carnaby, showing all his brilliantly white Parisian teeth.
'It will not be her fault if she is not, papa,' said Violet, who had a special dislike to the lady in question. 'I wonder how long she has studied the language of the flowers in the conservatory with old Colonel Rakes' son?'
'Why?'