You wouldn't ride without them." "And do you take a maid to look after them ?" "Well, you must have a maid." "And when you travel on the Continent, do you take a maid ?" "I always took one." "What is Paris like?
Isn't it just a dream?
Did you go to the opera ?--Have you been on the Riviera ?--Oh, do tell me about those places--is it like you read about in books ?--all beautiful, well-dressed women and men with nothing to do--and did you go to Monte Carlo ?" This was all poured out in a rush of words; but in Mary's experience the Continent was merely a place where the Continentals got the better of the English, and she said so.
"Travelling is so mixed up with discomfort, that it loses half its plumage," she said.

"I'll tell you all I can about Paris some other time.

Now you tell me," she went on, folding carefully a silk blouse and putting it in a drawer, "are there any neighbours here?
Will anyone come to call ?" "I'm afraid you'll find it very dull here," said Ellen.

"There are no neighbours at all except Poss and Binjie, two young fellows on the next station.

The people in town are just the publicans and the storekeeper, and all the selectors around us are a very wild lot.