We were none of us musical, though Miss Jenkyns beat time, out of time, by way of appearing to be so.

I'll not listen to reason. . . . Reason always means what someone else has got to say.

Bombazine would have shown a deeper sense of her loss.

Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me.

I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.

She stood by the tea-table in a light-coloured muslin gown, which had a good deal of pink about it. She looked as if she was not attending to the conversation, but solely busy with the tea-cups, among which her round ivory hands moved with pretty, noiseless, daintiness.