It's owing to that same chance, by the way, that I am able to ask you to dinner.

I don't need Marie to dress me this season, so she keeps house for me, and my little Galway girl has gone home for a visit.
I should never have asked you if Molly had been here, for I remember you don't like English cookery." Alexander walked about the room, looking at everything.
"I haven't had a chance yet to tell you what a jolly little place I think this is.

Where did you get those etchings?
They're quite unusual, aren't they ?" "Lady Westmere sent them to me from Rome last Christmas.

She is very much interested in the American artist who did them.

They are all sketches made about the Villa d'Este, you see.