My wild oats are not sown yet, any more than Val's; only you don't hear of them, because I have money to back me, and he has not.

I must find a girl I should like to make my wife before that event comes off, Maude; and I have not found her yet." Lady Maude damaged her landscape.

She sketched in a tree where a chimney ought to have been, and laid the fault upon her pencil.
"It has been real sport, Maude, ever since I came home from knocking about abroad, to hear and see the old ladies.

They think I am to be caught with a bait; and that bait is each one's own enchanting daughter.
Let them angle, an they please--it does no harm.

They are amused, and I am none the worse.