"They don't do it because it's romantic." "It must be romantic work." "It isn't, I assure you.

It's drudgery--and sometimes torture." Stephanie laughed: "I believe it's easy work and a gay existence full of romance.

Don't undeceive me, Louis.

And I think you're selfish not to let us meet your beautiful Valerie at tea." "Why not ?" added his sister.

"I'd like to see her myself." "Oh, Lily, you know perfectly well that oil and water don't mix," he said with a weary shrug.
"I suppose we're the oil," remarked Rose Aulne--"horrid, smooth, insinuating stuff.