“Oh, what have you done with your rings?” knowing they were the only articles of jewellery I always wore.
“I put them away,” I replied. “I never travel off the beaten track wearing jewellery of any kind.”
“Oh dear, what a pity! They make you look such a lady.”
(Collapse of poor Mrs. A. T. Did “ladyism” depend on diamond rings?)
CHAPTER XXVI
MORE JOTTINGS: AND HYDE PARK
GENEVIÈVE WARD’S stories are endless and amusing. To mention only two of these.
“A man arrived to have a tooth out.
“‘Will it hurt much, sir?’