I expect _she_ will retire from the 'Hotels,' some day, wipe out the past, and buy a new present with her money....

She'll have _her_ portrait in the _Queen_ some day as a Vice-President of the Girls' Friendly Society!...

And yet she's such a gambler and a rake that she _may_ get pinched over the White Slave traffic....

I was on tenterhooks over that Lewissohn case the other day, fearing every moment to see mother's name mixed up with it, or else an allusion to her 'Hotels.' But I fancy she has been wise enough--indeed I should guess that Aunt Liz had long ago warned her to leave England alone as a recruiting ground and to collect her chambermaids, waitresses, musicians, typists from the Continent only--Austria, Alsace, Bohemia, Belgium, Italy, the Rhineland, Paris, Russia, Poland.

Knowing what we British people are, can't you almost predict the _bias_ of Aunt Liz's mind?
How she would solace herself that her dividends were not derived from the prostitution of English girls but only of 'foreigners' ?..." _Norie_: "You seem to have studied the geography of the business pretty thoroughly!..." _Vivie_ (bitterly): "Yes.