And it seems to me that transition periods are just like that." "How volatile you are! One minute you are so serious and the next so frivolous that I fail to follow you.

I often think that you must have some foreign blood in your veins, you are so utterly different from the typical, stolid, shy, self-conscious English-woman." "I hope you don't think I was made in Germany, like cheap china and imitation Astrakhan." "Heaven forbid! The Germans are more stolid and serious than the English.

But you must have a Celtic ancestor in you somewhere.

Haven't you ?" "Well, to tell you the truth, my great-grandmother was a Manxwoman; but we are ashamed to talk much about her, because it sounds as if she'd had no tail." "Then you must have inherited your temperament from her.

But now I want to talk to you seriously about doing something for the men who work in the coal-pits, and who--more even than the rest of their class--are shut out from the joy and beauty of the world.