"Lucky, indeed, to lose you a good tenant!"
"It was the luckiest thing she ever did, for the hotel was awfully expensive."
"Why did you not take apartments, then?"
"Oh, they are so lonely and so poky, and landladies rob one so."
"Is your father a Roman Catholic?"
"He is."
"What are you?"
"I am nothing," said Fanny, proclaiming her simple creed with all the simplicity of childhood, and a smile that surely was reflected on the Recording Angel's face as he jotted down her reply.
"Does your father know of this state of your mind?" asked Charles in a horrified voice.