'Jack's always worrying me to chuck it and devote myself to the children,' she confided to me one evening, while she was waiting for her cue.

'But, as I tell him, I'm more helpful to them being with them half the day alive than all the day dead.' That's an anecdote worth remembering, when your time comes.

If God gives woman a drum he doesn't mean man to take it away from her.

She hasn't got to be playing it for twenty-four hours a day.

I'd like you to have seen your mother's Cordelia." Flossie was tacking her way towards them.