I had allowed her, (imprudently, as it has since turned out, ) at her earnest desire, to go to Bath with one of her young friends, who was attending her father there for his health.
Signora Grassini, like the silly little woman she was, had evidently been chattering imprudently to this slippery creature, whom Gemma, for her part, was beginning actually to dislike.
During a boom the popular estimation of the magnitude of both these risks, both borrower's risk and lender's risk, is apt to become unusually and imprudently low.