Everybody is fat and happy." "Just as they were in 1914," Chalmers remarked significantly.
"More so," Dorminster asserted.

"In those days we had our alarmists.
Nowadays, they too seem to have gone to sleep.

My uncle--" "Your uncle was an uncommonly shrewd man," Chalmers interrupted.

"I was going to talk about him." "After lunch," Nigel suggested, rising to his feet.

"Here come my cousin and some of her tennis friends.