I always envied that man.
Not that I could rise to such Oriental heights.

The beggar's bowl wouldn't do for me.

I cling to my comforts: also, I am sure Sir Purun Dass left himself no loophole whereby he might slip back to his official position whereas I-----Well, the Politician thinks I have gone for a three months' rest cure, and at sixty one is not impatient.

You will say, 'How like Pam!' Yes, isn't it?
I always was given to leaving myself loopholes; but, all the same, I am not going to face an old age bolstered up by bridge and cosmetics.

There must be other props, and I mean to find them.