The Pantechnicon stored and distributed a good deal of furniture as well. The very idea of a lady of good breeding visiting such a place. There would be tables lying about, on their sides, naked! Not to mention flaccid dirigibles! Alexia shuddered at the very idea.

The ill-informed masses included her own family among their ranks, a family that specialized in being both inconvenient and asinine.

And I find perfect beauty excessively boring, don't you?

Alexia abhorred hypocrisy, especially when munitions were involved.

What did you do?” “Well, you see, there was this pot of tea, simply sitting there…” He trailed off. “Useful thing, tea,” commented Lyall thoughtfully.

You are about as covert as a sledgehammer.

I believe there is a considerable range in the bang of most guns.