"Skating!"
"Ping-pong!"
Getting theatre-tickets at the theatre! She waved them aside with scorn.
"I have washed fourteen children," she declared, impressively, "fitted at least a dozen women with blouses and skirts, and three with boots. Besides a lot of odd things."
Lord Arranmore set down his cup with a little shrug of the shoulders.
"You have joined Brooks' Society?" he remarked.
"Yes! I have been down at the Stepney branch all the morning. And do you know, we're disinfected before we leave."
"A most necessary precaution, I should think," Lady Caroom exclaimed, reaching for her vinaigrette, "but do go and change your things as quickly as you can.
"I must eat, mother, or starve," Sybil declared. "I have never been so hungry."
A somewhat ponderous lady, who was the wife of a bishop, felt bound to express her disapprobation.