I'm afraid the ordinary man is a bit of a rascal--" "And the ordinary woman ?" "No, I don't like the ordinary woman either--" "Ah, dear me, I've no doubt that's very true, very true." Mrs.Cosham sighed.

"Swift would have agreed with you, anyhow--" She looked at him, and thought that there were signs of distinct power in his brow.

He would do well, she thought, to devote himself to satire.
"Charles Lavington, you remember, was a solicitor," Mrs.Milvain interposed, rather resenting the waste of time involved in talking about fictitious people when you might be talking about real people.

"But you wouldn't remember him, Katharine." "Mr.Lavington?
Oh, yes, I do," said Katharine, waking from other thoughts with her little start.

"The summer we had a house near Tenby.