Sackcloth and ashes benefit no one.

Shall we have another turn ?" "Not yet," Penelope replied.

"Wait till the crowd thins a little.

Tell me what you have been doing today ?" "Pretty strenuous time," Sir Charles remarked.

"Up at nine, played golf at Ranelagh all morning, lunched down there, back to my rooms and changed, called on my tailor, went round to the club, had one game of billiards and four rubbers of bridge." "Is that all ?" Penelope asked.
The faint sarcasm which lurked beneath her question passed unnoticed.
Sir Charles smiled good-humoredly.
"Not quite," he answered.