If you're a woman you are bound to work for some man or another, and to see to his food and to bear with his tantrums; and, for my part, I'd rather do it for a husband than for a father or a brother.

There's more credit in it, as you might say." "There's something in that, maybe." "And after all, in spite of the botheration he gives, there's something very cheerful in having a man about the house.

They keep you alive, do men.

The last time I saw Jemima Stubbs she was as low as low could be.
'Jemima,' I says, 'you are out of spirits.' 'Mrs.Bateson,' says she, 'I am that.

I wish I was either in love or in the cemetery, and I don't much mind which.'" "Did she cry ?" asked Elisabeth, who was always absorbingly interested in any one who was in trouble.