I don't think it is at all such a letter as _I_ would have written you, for instance." "Of course not.

It wouldn't be proper for you to say 'Phebe, my dear,' as Gerald does.

Yours would have to be a very dignified, pastoral letter." "Yes, addressed to 'My Lamb,' which you couldn't object to in a pastoral letter of course, and which sounds nearly as affectionate, blaming you for having caused me to lose the valuable information I might have gained about the Baroness Bunsen.

I never got much farther than her birth in that famous history.

I see poor Miss Delano casting longing glances in here.