I always did like diamonds on lace.

Some people would have us believe that diamonds should only be worn with blue velvet.

How commonplace! Where have you been to-night ?" "Where have I been?
I have been at home.

Where should a good woman be in the absence of her husband, but at home--his home and her home ?" Ella laughed loud and long with her head thrown back on the cushion of the sofa, and the diamonds in her hair giving back flash for flash to the electric candles above her head.

"Yes; I was at home--I dined at home, and, God knows why, I conceived a sudden desire to go to the opera,--Melba is the _Juliet_,--and forgetting that you were engaged to the Earlscourts--you told me last week that you were going, but I stupidly forgot, I drove across here to ask you to be my companion.