She becomes immensely excited, emotionally as well as motorically, many times a day, and her excitement, at such times, will assume any form which suggests itself or is appropriate […]

The truce between the two countries has been patched up.

The martello towers was put up for the Guernsey people to get in out of the way of the Grand Saracen.

In the taper-lit, perhaps pre-sixteeth-century room - a piece of Laughing and Triumphing needlework in the style of Rubens completely hid the walls - the capacious oval of the dinner-table, crowned by a monteith bowl filled with slipper-orchids, showed agreeably enough.