Not that I complain; beggars mustn't be choosers.

I should have preferred a practice in a fashionable part of London; but our little windfall of money--" He came to a full stop in the middle of a sentence.

The sale of the superb diamond pin, by means of which Lord Harry had repaid Mrs.
Vimpany's services, was, of all domestic events, the last which it might be wise to mention in the presence of Miss Henley.

He was awkwardly silent.

Taking advantage of that circumstance, Iris introduced the subject in which she felt interested.
"How is Mrs.Vimpany ?" she asked.
"Oh, she's all right!" "Does she like your new house ?" The doctor made a strange reply.