Why do these mundane things always break in upon the most sacred moments ?" "Life," Lady Caroom said, helping herself recklessly to muffin, "is such a wonderful mixture of the real and the fanciful, the actual and the sentimental, one is always treading on the heels of the other.

The little man who turns the handle must have lots of fun." "If only he has a sense of humour," Brooks interposed.

"After all, though, it is the grisly, ugly things which float to the top.

One has to probe always for the beautiful, and it requires our rarest and most difficult sense to apprehend the humorous." Lord Arranmore stirred his tea slowly.

His face was like the face of a carved image.