Of course, what he didn't sell they had to finish up themselves.

Why, one winter, when he had a run of bad luck, they lived for two months on nothing but muffins.

I never saw a girl so changed in all my life.

One has to think of these things, you know." But the most shamefully mercenary engagement that I think Amenda ever entered into, was one with a 'bus conductor.

We were living in the north of London then, and she had a young man, a cheesemonger, who kept a shop in Lupus Street, Chelsea.