I am sophisticated, too, sophisticated enough to have cherished my flavours as a gourmet tries to save the bouquet of old wine.

You think that the Tower is the pleasure of housemaids on a Bank Holiday.

But it quite makes me quiver to think of it," laughing again.

"That I laugh, is the sign that I am not as beautifully, freshly capable of enjoyment as those genuine first Americans were, and in a way I am sorry for it." Mrs.Worthington laughed also, and with an enjoyment.
"You are very clever, Betty," she said.
"No, no," answered Bettina, "or, if I am, almost everybody is clever in these days.

We are nearly all of us comparatively intelligent." "You are very interesting at all events, and the Anstruthers will exult in you.