Mrs.Creamer has always been particularly kind to us.

Why, she asks me to receive with her every winter." But Norman was in a bantering mood.

"Am not I rich and you noble ?" he laughed.

"Do you suppose, my dear, that Mrs.Creamer would ask you to receive with her if we lived two or three squares off Fifth Avenue?
It is as hard for a poor man to enter Mrs.Creamer's house as for a camel to pass through the needle's eye.

Her motions are sidereal and her orbit is as regulated as that of a planet." Mrs.Wentworth protested.
"Why, she has all sorts of people at her house--!" "Except the unsuccessful.