" CHAPTER V So swept on Luciana in the social whirlpool, driving the rush of life along before her.

The Count, a keen-sighted man, soon saw through the party, their inclinations, dispositions, wishes, and capabilities, and by some means or other contrived to bring Luciana to a new kind of exhibition, which was perfectly suited to her.

Luciana with her train of attendants (her aunt had gone on some time before) swept at once into a new sphere of life.