By her side was her son, whose twenty-first birthday was being celebrated.
"I wonder whether that professor of yours will come," she remarked, as the stream of incoming guests slackened for a moment.

"I'd love to have him here, if it were only for a moment.

Every one's talking about him and his work in South America." "He hates receptions," the boy replied, "but he promised he'd come.

I never thought, when he used to drill science into us at the lectures, that he was going to be such a tremendous big pot." Mrs.Rheinholdt's plump fingers toyed for a moment complacently with the diamonds which hung from her neck.
"You can never tell, in a world like this," she murmured.

"That's why I make a point of being civil to everybody.