If they are dull in the country, you will save them." "I am very interested, at all events," said Bettina, "and interest like mine is quite passe.

A clever American who lives in England, and is the pet of duchesses, once said to me (he always speaks of Americans as if they were a distant and recently discovered species), 'When they first came over they were a novelty.

Their enthusiasm amused people, but now, you see, it has become vieux jeu.

Young women, whose specialty was to be excited by the Tower of London and Westminster Abbey, are not novelties any longer.

In fact, it's been done, and it's done FOR as a specialty.' And I am excited about the Tower of London.