Our English villages have often exquisitely beautiful names.

Windermere, for instance, or Hunstanton," and he rolled the syllables over his tongue with a soft sensual pleasure.
I had a box the first night and, thinking it might do Oscar some good, I took with me Arthur Walter of _The Times_.

The first scene of the first act was as old as the hills, but the treatment gave charm to it if not freshness.

The delightful, unexpected humour set off the commonplace incident; but it was only the convention that Arthur Walter would see.

The play was poor, he thought, which brought me to wonder.
After the first act I went downstairs to the _foyer_ and found the critics in much the same mind.