She ain't the sort that things happen to, so don't you begin to worry about her.

She's got mighty little sense, that's the gospel truth, but the little she's got has been sharpened down to a p'int." "I can't help feeling that she hasn't been well brought up.

I did what I could, but she needed more time and care than I could give her.

It wasn't, of course, as if I'd chosen to neglect her.

I have been obliged to work or she would have starved." "Oh, well, I wouldn't bother about that.