Circumstances, too," she went on thoughtfully, "have made it so easy.

England is such a changed country.
When I was a child, I could read of the times when our kings really ruled, of our battles for dominion, of our fight for colonies, of our building up a great empire, and I could feel just a little thrill.

I can't now.

We have gone ahead of Napoleon.

From a nation of shop-keepers we have become a nation of general dealers--a fat, over-confident, bourgeois people.