MISS HENEAGE. The suit went by default. And, my dear William, there are many palliating circumstances. Cynthia was married to Karslake only seven months. There are no-- [_Glancing at_ GRACE] no hostages to Fortune! Ahem! SUDLEY. [_Still unwilling to be pleased._] Ah! What sort of a young woman is she? GRACE. [_With the superiority of one who is not too popular._] Men admire her. MISS HENEAGE. She's not conventional. MRS. PHILLIMORE. [_Showing a faint sense of justice._] I am bound to say she has behaved discreetly ever since she arrived in this house. MISS HENEAGE. Yes, Mary--but I sometimes suspect that she exercises a degree of self-control-- SUDLEY. [_Glad to have something against some one._] She claps on the lid, eh? And you think that perhaps some day she'll boil over? Well, of course fifteen or twenty millions--but who's Karslake? GRACE. [_Very superciliously._] He owns Cynthia K. She's the famous mare. MISS HENEAGE. He's Henry Karslake's son. SUDLEY. [_Beginning to make the best of fifteen millions-in-law._] Oh!--Henry!--Very respectable family. Although I remember his father served a term in the Senate. And so the wedding is to be to-morrow? MRS. PHILLIMORE. [_Assenting._] To-morrow. SUDLEY. [_Rising, his respectability to the front when he thinks of the ceremony._ GRACE _rises._] To-morrow. Well, my dear Sarah, a respectable family with some means. We must accept her. But on the whole, I think it will be best for me not to see the young woman. My disapprobation would make itself apparent. GRACE. [_Whispering to_ SUDLEY.] Cynthia's coming. [_He doesn't hear._ CYNTHIA _comes in, absorbed in reading a newspaper. She is a young creature in her twenties, small and high-bred, full of the love of excitement and sport. Her manner is wide-awake and keen, and she is evidently in no fear of the opinion of others. Her dress is exceedingly elegant, but with the elegance of a woman whose chief interests lie in life out of doors. There is nothing hard or masculine in her style, and her expression is youthful and ingenuous._ SUDLEY. [_Sententious and determinately epigrammatic._] The uncouth modern young woman, eight feet high, with a skin like a rhinoceros and manners like a cave-dweller--an habitue of the race-track and the divorce court-- GRACE. [_Aside to_ SUDLEY.] Cousin William! SUDLEY. Eh, oh!