I warn you solemnly, father, this is only the thin end of the wedge.

Unless you stand firm now, she'll want to choose our new stair carpet for us next.
Really, I think at her age she might take a little holiday, and leave the Almighty in charge." "Is that all you've got to say ?" said Colonel Bellairs, somewhat surprised.

"Do you wish me to ask him to the house or do you not?
I don't object to him.

I never did, except as a son-in-law, when he had no visible means of subsistence." "And no intention of making any." "Just so.

But I always rather liked him, and, and--time slips by"-- (it had indeed), "and I can't make much provision for you, in fact, almost none, and I may marry again; in fact, it is more than likely I shall shortly marry again." Colonel Bellairs was for a moment plunged in introspection.