I feel I could have a too deliciously intimate conversation with a bullock now." The house of Higgins had an enormous hall to which a large number of high windows gave the impression of a squint.

I should think two small Zeppelins could have danced a minuet under its dome.

Sarah Brown and the witch put on their cathedral look at once, by mistake, and propping their chins upon their umbrellas gazed reverently upward.
"Too dretful, a house of this size without servants," said Lady Arabel.
"The fourth footman was the last to go.

He said even the Army would be better than this.

He liked spooks, he said, at second hand, but not otherwise.