They seem miles behind us, with all our faults.

Mother only seems to think now of good things to eat and a course of the waters at Spa in September to neutralize the over-eating of the other eleven months.

There is no political career for women on the Continent." "Then why not marry and have children?
That is a career in itself.
Look at Honoria, how happy she is." "Yes--but there is only one man I could love, and he's married already." "Pooh! nonsense.

There are as many good fish in the sea as ever came out of it.

If you won't do as Beryl did--by the bye isn't she a swell in these days! And _strict_ with her daughters! She won't let 'em come here, I'm told, because of some silly story some one set abroad about me! And that humbug, Francis Brimley Storrington--by the bye he's an A.R.A.now and scarcely has enough talent to design a dog kennel, yet they've given him the job of the new stables at Buckingham Palace.