You don't take your house because it's the best house in the world, but because just then you want a house.

You go and see a house, and if it's very nasty you don't take it.

But if you think it will suit pretty well, and if you are tired of looking about for houses, you do take it.

That's the way one buys one's horses,--and one's husbands." "And you have not made up your mind yet ?" "Not quite.

Lady Baldock was a little more decent than usual just before I left Baddingham.