They WERE--I'd go to the stake.
Otherwise," she added, "I should have been a wretch.

And I've not been a wretch.

I've only been a double-dyed donkey." "Ah then," he asked, "what does our muddle make THEM to have been ?" "Well, too much taken up with considering each other.

You may call such a mistake as that by what ever name you please; it at any rate means, all round, their case.

It illustrates the misfortune," said Mrs.
Assingham gravely, "of being too, too charming." This was another matter that took some following, but the Colonel again did his best.