A. Oh dear no. She has also published Out of Eden, Quite True, and a book which apparently refers to the late-in-life "finishing" of an uneducated ecclesiastic called The Vicar's Governess.
Q. Don't you think that you are rather hard upon the novelists?
A. I hope not. I am sure I owe them a deep, deep debt of gratitude.
Q. How so? A. Without them I should be a victim to insomnia.
A REMINISCENCE OF THE VERY DRY WEATHER.
Secretary to Water-Works. "Tut-t-t-t. 'Getting very serious, y'know! If this Drought continues, I don't know what we——"
Friend. "Look here,—can't you turn on some Whiskey in the service? My dear Fellow, it would infallibly prevent Waste!"