I admit there are points in it presenting difficulties to the average intellect.
As I explained at the commencement, it was told to me by Ethelbertha, who had it from Amenda, who got it from the char-woman, and exaggerations may have crept into it.

The following, however, were incidents that came under my own personal observation.

They afforded a still stronger example of the influence exercised by Tommy Atkins upon the British domestic, and I therefore thought it right to relate them.
"The heroine of them," I said, "is our Amenda.

Now, you would call her a tolerably well-behaved, orderly young woman, would you not ?" "She is my ideal of unostentatious respectability," answered MacShaughnassy.
"That was my opinion also," I replied.

"You can, therefore, imagine my feelings on passing her one evening in the Folkestone High Street with a Panama hat upon her head (_my_ Panama hat), and a soldier's arm round her waist.