Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the matter which present the greatest difficulties, let the inquirer begin by mastering more elementary problems.

The husband was a teetotaller, there was no other woman, and the conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling them at his wife.

As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.

Let me see. What are my other shortcomings?

My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.

My sister and I, you will recollect, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two souls which are so closely allied.

That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.