There are generally three to five runthroughs at which the director feels his company is ready to be criticized by outsiders. A large or small audience of friends may be invited to the last two of the runthroughs.

Whereupon most did desist; but some, secreting their cigars in the hollow of their hands, took whiffs by stealth, and blushed to find it fame; while others, who were such grandees and big pots that their own convenience was the first and foremost desideratum, continued to smoke with lordliness and indifference.

I don't know how other lesbian, nonbiological mothers-to-be, who tried to get pregnant and could not, might experience their partners' pregnancy.

When you make the bed, please always turn the sheet back over the blanket.