And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the same reason. No powder on her nose - that proved to be the correct solution. How can you build on such a quicksand? Their most trivial action may mean volumes, or their most extraordinary conduct may depend upon a hairpin or a curling tongs.

A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the theory of reincarnation.

When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.

There is a soul-jealousy that can be as frantic as any body-jealousy.

The mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me.

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through -- a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.