She succumbed to the eternal feminine passion for bargains.

You are an atrocious person! Since the day I met you I have become steadily more depraved.

I am relieved. May I now have the truth?

I liked that young man, did not you? There was something particularly pleasing about his manners, which I thought very easy and frank. He has an air of honest manliness, too, which, in these days of fribbles and counter-coxcombs, I own I find refreshing!

I think myself I ought to be shot for writing such nonsense.... But it's unquestionably good escapist literature and I think I should rather like it if I were sitting in an air-raid shelter or recovering from flu.

Oh, 'tis not my qualities they object to! 'Tis my lack of vice.

No one could have called Mr. Standen quick-witted, but the possession of three sisters had considerably sharpened his instinct of self-preservation.