Surely she had endured enough for one evening without having to listen to intelligent conversation?

I saw something nasty in the woodshed.

A straight nose is a great help if one wishes to look serious'.

On the whole, Flora liked it better when they were silent, though it did rather give her the feeling that she was acting in one of the less cheerful German highbrow films.

He was, she reflected, almost rudely like a tortoise; and she was glad her friend kept none as pets or they might have suspected mockery.

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

Here was an occasion, she thought, for indulging in that deliberate rudeness which only persons with habitually good manners have the right to commit.