"We're not so grown up but what grandma's got to march in front.

Now, from your exhaustive observation of Great Britain, extending over a period of six weeks, is she going to ?" "My exhaustive observation," said Lorne, smiling, "enables me to tell you one thing with absolute accuracy; and that is that nobody knows.
They adore Wallingham over there--he's pretty nearly a god--and they'd like to do as he tells them, and they're dead sick of theoretic politics; but they're afraid--oh, they're afraid!" "They'll do well to ca' canny," said John Murchison.
"There's two things in the way, at a glance," Lorne went on.

"The conservatism of the people--it isn't a name, it's a fact--the hostility and suspicion; natural enough: they know they're stupid, and they half suspect they're fair game.

I suppose the Americans have taught them that.

Slow--oh, slow! More interested in the back-garden fence than anything else.