"I often wish I had! Everyone ought to stay at home.

But, of course, they won't." Mrs.Paley conceived a certain grudge against Ridley, who seemed to be criticising her habits after an acquaintance of five minutes.
"I believe in foreign travel myself," she stated, "if one knows one's native land, which I think I can honestly say I do.

I should not allow any one to travel until they had visited Kent and Dorsetshire--Kent for the hops, and Dorsetshire for its old stone cottages.

There is nothing to compare with them here." "Yes--I always think that some people like the flat and other people like the downs," said Mrs.Elliot rather vaguely.
Hirst, who had been eating and drinking without interruption, now lit a cigarette, and observed, "Oh, but we're all agreed by this time that nature's a mistake.

She's either very ugly, appallingly uncomfortable, or absolutely terrifying.