for I began before I was sixteen, and now I'm twenty-six.

Once or twice England has had to thank me for giving her news of the most vital importance.

You're shocked to hear what my inner life has been ?" "If I were shocked, no doubt the feeling would be more than half conventional.

One hardly knows how conventional one's opinions are until one stops to think," said I.
"Once, I gloried in the work," Maxine went on.

"But that was before I fell in love.