I should like to see this duchess, who shows a fine discernment in the selection of her assistants.

Beware of the woman who is frankly your enemy.

If she is frank, it is because she is confident of the end; if not, she is frank in order to disarm us of the suspicion of cunning.

I would give much to know the true meaning of this house party." "Hang me if I can see what difference it makes.

She can not do anything either by frankness or by cunning." "She gathered us in neatly, this red-haired Amazon." "Red-haired!" in a kind of protest.
"Why, yes; that's the color, isn't it ?" innocently.
"I thought it a red-brown.