"She flirts with him herself." "Why, Lisa, Aunt Lilian's over forty, and he's twenty-nine!" "Forty isn't the end of the world for a woman, nowadays.

She's a beauty and a great lady.

Ivor always wants the best of everything.

She flirts with him, and he with her." Di laughed too, but only to make it seem as if she didn't care.

"You'd better not say such silly things to Uncle Eric," she said, staring at the pattern of the cornice.