Females bearing mating bites are seen from early May to early August, with the majority seen in May.

A stopped clock is right twice a day.

It shell-shocked the home crowd, who quickly demanded a response, which came midway through the half and in emphatic fashion.

He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance.[…]But she said she must go back, and when they joined the crowd again[…]she found her mother standing up before the seat on which she had sat all the evening searching anxiously for her with her eyes, and her father by her side.