Romance at short notice was her speciality.

Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.

I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly.

It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country.

You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

Her frocks are built in Paris, but she wears them with a strong English accent.

The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.