Have I not told you that I'm not going to marry Mr.
Holland ?" "That is like one of the phrases which you give to your father, so that the people might think him clever.

Orthodox! Who cares nowadays for what is dully orthodox?
Who ever heard of a hero in orthodoxy nowadays?
The thing is impossible.

There may be, of course, thousands of orthodox heroes, but one never hears anything of them.

The planets Jupiter and Saturn and Mercury and Mars and the rest of them come and go at their appointed seasons, and no one ever gives them a second thought, poor old respectable things! but the moment a comet appears in the sky everyone rushes out to gaze at it, and the newspapers deal with it from day to day, and the illustrated papers give its portrait.

Nothing could be more unorthodox than your comet.