Besides, the Dog David was asleep on the middle of the counterpane, and she was too good a mother to wake him.

There are a good many things to do when you find yourself awake too early.

It is said that some people sit up and darn their stockings, but I refer now to ordinary people, not to angels.

Utterly resourceless people find themselves reduced to reading the penny stamps on yesterday's letters.

There is a good deal of food for thought on a penny stamp, but nothing really uplifting.