She's terribly ambitious for me, but I hate school, and I simply _cannot_ learn French.
Miss Waring is terribly severe; she says it's merely a lack of application in my case; that I _could_ learn but won't.

When mama comes she takes me to luncheon at the Whitcomb and sometimes to the matinee.
We saw John Drew last winter: he's simply perfect--so refined and gentlemanly; and I've seen Julia Marlowe twice; she's my favorite actress.

Mama says that if I just will read novels I ought to read good ones, and she gave me a set of Thackeray for my own; but you can skip a whole lot in him, I'm here to state! One of our best critics has said (mama's always saying that) that the best readers are those who know how to skip, and I'm a good skipper.

I always want to know how it's going to come out.

If they can't live happy forever afterward I want them to part beautifully, with soft music playing; and _he_ must go away and leave _her_ holding a rose as a pledge that _he_ will never forget." When Marian paused there was a silence as Sylvia tried to pick out of this long speech something to which she could respond.