I thought it was a pity that we should ever come back." "It was a pity," said Lord Chiltern.
"But, nevertheless, substantially necessary," said Lady Laura.
"Failing our power of reproducing the toffy, I suppose it was," said Violet.
"You were not Miss Effingham then," said Lord Chiltern.
"No,--not as yet.

These disagreeable realities of life grow upon one; do they not?
You took off my shoes and dried them for me at a woodman's cottage.

I am obliged to put up with my maid's doing those things now.

And Miss Blink the mild is changed for Lady Baldock the martinet.

And if I rode about with you in a wood all day I should be sent to Coventry instead of to bed.