We must use words as they are used, or stand aside from life.
People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.
A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.
Pushing forty? She's hanging on for dear life.
It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement.
I never agree with the compliments paid to it. It is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary.