Don't you recollect my telling you Mrs.Robinson's speech last Monday.

I have never thought quite so much of myself since." "If I remember rightly, Mrs.Robinson paid you a compliment.

She told Miss Clarkson that she wished Selina were as fine a woman as Elizabeth Templeton." "And you call that compliment!" and Elizabeth arched her long full throat in rather a haughty and swanlike manner.

"Fancy that goose of a Miss Clarkson repeating such a speech.

A fine woman is my abhorrence.
It always seems to me to rank in the same category with a prime turkey or a prize bullock, or something ready for the market." "My dear Betty, you do say such odd things!" "Of course I do.