One policeman may be a friend, but two are the Law.

Of all the band of personal traitors the sense of humor is the most dangerous.

She rose and followed her bust from the room.

Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.

the old fellow seemed to spot deceit as if it reeked like a goat.

A great deal has been written about the forthrightness of the moderns shocking the Victorians, but there is no shock like the one which the forthrightness of the Victorians can give a modern.

There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.