He had begun, because he thought her rich, by trying to be very impressive, very beguiling in what she knew was an utterly insincere way.
Yet if she was an actress, he was an even better actor.
As they talked together, visiting the Pump Rooms in the morning, driving during the afternoon in a Phaeton that Julius hired at vast expense, she began to think that he did in fact find her rather attractive.
The compliments he paid her she dismissed, but on the third afternoon as they drove out into the country he began to talk about himself in a manner that he had not done before.
She felt then that perhaps for the first time he was thinking of her as a woman and not as a bank balance. He told her how much he enjoyed London and how exciting it had been to find he could move with the Bucks and
