Sphinx. The hotels at Cairo are so dreadfully expensive.
Poet. Is it true you went tunny-fishing with Antony?
Sphinx. One must draw the line somewhere! Cleopatra was so cross. She was horribly jealous, and not nearly so handsome as you might suppose, though she was photographed as a "type of Egyptian Beauty!"
Poet. I must thank you very much for the courteous way in which you have replied to my questions. And now will you forgive me if I make an observation? In my opinion you are not a Sphinx at all.
Sphinx (indignantly). What am I, then?
Poet. A Minx.
THE LAY OF THE EXPLORER.
I USED to think that if a man
In any character could score a