One doesn't expect more than that." "It is just the same here, Miss Hannay, as it is everywhere else," said the Doctor; "only in big establishments in England they rob you of pounds, while here they rob you of annas, which, as I have explained to you, are two pence halfpennies.

The person who undertakes to put down little peculations enters upon a war in which he is sure to get the worst of it.

He wastes his time, spoils his temper, makes himself and everyone around him uncomfortable, and after all he is robbed.

Life is too short for it, especially in a climate like this.

Of course, in time you get to understand the language; if you see anything in the bills that strikes you as showing waste you can go into the thing, but as a rule you trust entirely to your butler; if you cannot trust him, get another one.