When Bulgaria lined up with Germany Susan only remarked scornfully, "One more nation anxious for a licking," but the Greek tangle worried her beyond her powers of philosophy to endure calmly.
"Constantine of Greece has a German wife, Mrs.Dr.dear, and that fact squelches hope.

To think that I should have lived to care what kind of a wife Constantine of Greece had! The miserable creature is under his wife's thumb and that is a bad place for any man to be.

I am an old maid and an old maid has to be independent or she will be squashed out.
But if I had been a married woman, Mrs.Dr.dear, I would have been meek and humble.

It is my opinion that this Sophia of Greece is a minx." Susan was furious when the news came that Venizelos had met with defeat.

"I could spank Constantine and skin him alive afterwards, that I could," she exclaimed bitterly.
"Oh, Susan, I'm surprised at you," said the doctor, pulling a long face.