You probably haven't got a leg left to stand on.

I suspect the old cats of Walden have chewed them both off, and all the while you were happy, and doing the thing any girl would much rather have done.

Lord, I hate this eternal picking! How did you come back, Kate ?" "Dr.Gray brought me." "I should think it would have made talk, your staying there with him," commented Mrs.Holt.
"Fortunately, the people of Hartley seem reasonably busy attending their own affairs," said Kate.

"Doctor Gray had been boarding at the hotel all fall, so he just went on living there until after the wedding." George glared at his mother, but she avoided his eyes, and laughing in a silly, half-confused manner she said: "How much money did your father give the bride ?" "I can't tell you, in even dollars and cents," said Kate.

"Nancy Ellen didn't say." Kate saw the movement of George's foot under the table, and knew that he was trying to make his mother stop asking questions; so she began talking to him about his work.