"_How sweetly that simple costume becomes your style of beauty,
dear!_" _i.e._, "Cheap dress suits a silly dowdy."
"_Ah! Here we are again! Thought I should come across you presently;_"
_i.e._, "How he must tout for it! And what a relief it would be to go
somewhere where he does _not_ turn up!"
"_Yes, capital story I know,--but pardon me just a minute, old chap.
I think I see Mrs. Mountcashel beckoning me;_" _i.e._, "_What_ an
escape! Doesn't buttonhole me again to-night if _I_ know it."