"You haven't taken up----" She understood his apprehension and responded merrily, "Oh, murder, no! You mean you're afraid I break out sometimes in a piece of cheesecloth and run around a fountain thirty times, and then, for an encore, show how much like snakes I can make my arms look." "I SAID you were a mind-reader!" he exclaimed.

"That's exactly what I was pretending to be afraid you might do." "'Pretending ?' That's nicer of you.

No; it's not my mania." "What is ?" "Oh, nothing in particular that I know of just now.

Of course I've had the usual one: the one that every girl goes through." "What's that ?" "Good heavens, Mr.Russell, you can't expect me to believe you're really a man of the world if you don't know that every girl has a time in her life when she's positive she's divinely talented for the stage! It's the only universal rule about women that hasn't got an exception.

I don't mean we all want to go on the stage, but we all think we'd be wonderful if we did.