And she would flash into her stories an "As you said, Ann," or "As you would put it, Ann," whenever she found anything to fit the Ann she would create.
Several times, however, the rescuing party had to knock down good form and trample gentle breeding under foot to reach the spot in time.

Wayne spoke of a friend in Vienna from whom he had heard that day and turned to Ann with an interrogation about the Viennese.

Katie, contemplating the suppleness of Ann's neck, momentarily asleep at her post, missed the "Come over and help us" look, and Ann had begun upon a fatal, "I have never been in--" when Katie, with ringing laugh broke in: "Isn't it odd, Ann, that you should never have been in Vienna, when you lived all those years right there in Florence?
I _do_ think it the oddest thing!" Ann agreed that it _was_ odd--Wayne concurring.
But driven from Vienna, he sought Florence.

"And Italy?
I presume I go on record as the worst sort of bounder in asking if you really care greatly about living there ?" Katie thought it time Ann try a stroke for herself.

One would never develop strength on a life-preserver.
Seeing that she had it to make, she paused before it an instant.