We are scandalized, quite honestly, when others are caught doing what we ourselves have done.

We are horrified and cry "Monster!" when others do what we ourselves refrain from doing only through lack of the bad courage.
No man is a hero who is not a hero to his valet; and no woman a lady unless her maid thinks so.

Margaret Severence's new maid Selina was engaged to be married; the lover had gone on a spree, had started a free fight in the streets, and had got himself into jail for a fortnight.

It was the first week of his imprisonment, and Selina had committed a series of faults intolerable in a maid.

She sent Margaret to a ball with a long tear in her skirt; she let her go out, open in the back, both in blouse and in placket; she upset a cup of hot CAFE AU LAIT on her arm; finally she tore a strap off a shoe as she was fastening it on Margaret's foot.