Ann: I didn’t know you went in for ingenious tortures.
Lord William: Tim is a little more discriminating in his charity than you are.
Selina: Where is Ninian?
Ann: At his anti-Bolshevist Committee Meeting.
Lord William: Is that bud bursting into flower?
Ann: It keeps a lot of violent-minded people busy. If “minded” be the word.
Selina: I had a letter from Mrs. Sidebotham—Sidebotham ... this morning. She wants me to organize an entertainment in the village. I am afraid that Papa’s vulgar jokes wouldn’t do for that.
Ann: Nor would Red Pottage.
Selina: “I’m a red rag to the Reds, so we’re all of us red together.”