I've come to the conclusion that the only things which make London--as I've known it--endurable are unlimited credit at a good dressmaker--Oh, and one of the beautiful new motor-cars.

You don't mind travelling from Dan to Beersheba if you can do it in five minutes.

But when you've got to catch omnibuses or take the Tube, dressed in garden-party finery--well it's all too disproportionate and tiresome.' Mrs Gildea laughed.

'You must remember that I am out of all your fine social business--except when I go as a reporter or look on from the upper boxes.' 'It's abominable: it's stifling,' exclaimed Lady Biddy, 'it kills all the best part of one.

You know I've tried time after time to strike out on my own individual self, but I've always been brought back again by my hopeless, hopeless lack of practical knowledge of how to earn a livelihood.