These persons were no doubt ladies upon whom he had failed to lavish the exceedingly small change of compliment.
"It is worth that and more," he replied, with his ready smile.

"After all, bowing and smirking come very easily.

One soon gets accustomed to it." "One has to," she replied with a little sigh.

"Especially if one is a woman, which little mishap comes to some of us, you know.

I wonder if you could find me a chair." She was standing with her back to a small sofa capable of holding three, but calculated to accommodate two.