"Women often do that sort of thing, you know.

Women often speak from motives which, if brought face to face with them, they wouldn't be able to distinguish from any other thing which they had never before seen." "Hollie, if there is a disgusting person in the world it is he who pretends to know so much concerning a woman's mind." "Well, that's because they who know, or pretend to know, so much about a woman's mind are invariably satirical, you understand," said Hollanden cheerfully.
A dog ran frantically across the lawn, his nose high in the air and his countenance expressing vast perturbation and alarm.

"Why, Billie forgot to whistle for his dog when he started for home," said Hollanden.

"Come here, old man! Well, 'e was a nice dog!" The girl also gave invitation, but the setter would not heed them.

He spun wildly about the lawn until he seemed to strike his master's trail, and then, with his nose near to the ground, went down the road at an eager gallop.