Has no one ever told you that it is the height of impropriety to kiss any gentleman, unless you have the intention of accompanying him immediately to the altar?

There is a worse tyranny than that of ill-treatment. It is the tyranny of tears, vapours, appeals to feelings of affection and of gratitude!

I don't know how it is...but you seem to think me something wonderful, and indeed, I am not.

My house seems remarkably full of people," he observed. "Is it possible we were expected.

Nevertheless, she did not weep, because, for one thing, it would have made her eyes red, and another, it would be of very little use.

Does it ever occur to you, Mama, that my grandfather is a lunatic?

But it is only in epic tragedies that gloom is unrelieved. In real life tragedy and comedy are so intermingled that when one is most wretched ridiculous things happen to make one laugh in spite of oneself.