I'm as lazy as a cat," she said, settling with her pantherine grace among the cushions.

"Do you know what has been my ambition ever since I was a kid ?" "Whatever of woman's ambitions you had you must have attained," said I, with a bow.
"Pooh!" she said.

"You mean that I can have crowds of men falling in love with me.

That's rubbish." She was certainly frank.

"I meant something quite different.