"But I've had a peaceful life if rather a monotonous one, and I've nothing to complain of.

It is very good of you to have remembered me, and I'm more glad than I can say to see you again.

It's a quarter of a century since we met!" "It seems like yesterday," Mr Ogilvie assured her.

"And yet how many things have happened in the meantime! This charming house of yours is a perfect haven of rest.

Why do people knock about the world as they do, when they might stay quietly at home ?" "Nay, it is rather I who should ask you that," laughed Aunt Charlotte.
"It is you who have been knocking about, you know, not I.Men are so fond of adventures, while we women have to content ourselves with a very humdrum sort of life.