You are not a bit solemn, really, only you put on the airs of a sister of mercy.

So you don't like Etta; you need not be afraid of telling me so; she is the greatest humbug in the world, only Giles is so foolish as to believe in her.

I call her a humbug because she pretends to be what she is not; she is really a most prosaic sort of person, and she wants to make people believe that she is a soft romantic body.' 'You are not very charitable in your estimate of your cousin, Lady Betty,' 'Then she should not lead Gladys such a life.

Poor dear majesty, to be ruled by her prime minister! I should like to see Etta try to dictate to me.

Why, I should laugh in her face.