The gentleman she is speaking to ends up being the father of David and her husband/lover.

I was given to understand that the gentleman had been speaking for at least three days.

It was not even the way that a gentleman out of his teens should speak to a lady on such a subject.

The gentleman, however, being a diplomat, spoke to him as an equal.

And you say that gentlemen speak of things as they are?

The gentleman was speaking, as he often did, of his great affection for Stephen.

"Those gentlemen just spoke of a Theosophical meeting here this evening."

The three gentlemen spoke together apart, for a few moments.

Then the young gentleman spoke: "This is my good friend.

A gentleman, as I understand it, does not speak of these things.