I was always taught that there were thirty-seven different ways of telling a lie, which is to state a diplomatic fact.

I have swept them all away.

I tell the truth." "How daring," Maggie murmured, "and how wonderfully original! What should you say, now, if I asked you if my nose wanted powdering ?" "I should start by saying that the question was outside the sphere of my activities," he decided.

"I should then proceed to add, as a private person, that a little dab on the left side would do it no harm." "I begin to believe," she confessed, "that all I have heard of you is true." "Tell me exactly what you have heard," he begged.

"Leave out everything that isn't nice.