the only door into her bedroom led through the church.

scales are the grammar of music.

You know how some people are - they always feel they have to do things for other people's good, no matter what happens to the other people in the process!

the only door into her bedroom led through the church.

A half century of living should put a good deal into a person's face besides a few wrinkles and some unwelcome folds around the chin.

A compensation is something which does not quite compensate.

I have always been allergic to telephones. As far as I am concerned, they are very seldom time-savers and very often the destroyers of schedules.