That would be delightful,' agreed Flora, thinking how nasty and boring it would be.

Well,' said Mrs Smiling, 'it sounds an appalling place, but in a different way from all the others. I mean, it does sound interesting and appalling, while the others just sound appalling.

She liked Victorian novels. They were the only kind of novel you could read while eating an apple.

That would be delightful,' agreed Flora, thinking how nasty and boring it would be.

Curious how Love destroys every vestige of that politeness which the human race, in its years of evolution, has so painfully acquired.

There are some things (like first love and one’s first reviews) at which a woman in her middle years does not care to look too closely.

Women are all alike - aye fussin' over their fal-lals and bedazin' a man's eyes, when all they really want is man's blood and his heart out of his body and his soul and his pride.