"I am sure you follow the same plan yourself." "Invariably," said Max.
"It's a plan that doesn't always answer," observed Nick, in a grandfatherly tone.

"I shouldn't recommend it to everybody." "And it's horribly selfish," put in Olga.
"My dear child, don't be so frightfully moral!" protested Violet.

"I can't rise to it.

Nick, why doesn't it always answer to take what one wants ?" "Because one doesn't always succeed in keeping it," said Nick.
"He means," said Max, a spark of humour in his eyes, "that a champion,--no, a chaperon--sometimes comes along to the rescue of the stolen article.

But--from what I've seen of life--I scarcely think the odds would be on the side of the chaperon.