I was dark with a round museau of a face and thick lips and a pug nose and high cheekbones and deep-set brown eyes and a bush of black hair.

It's not as if you two were young people, and wanted to be billing and cooing, Lady Ball had said to her the same evening. Miss Mackenzie, as she thought of this, was not so sure that Lady Ball was right. Why would she not want billing and cooing as well as another?

An oak whose boughs were mossed with age.

Even though a generalization may be made that 'riches do tend to foster in you the instincts of a host, and poverty does create an atmosphere favourable to the growth of guestish instincts,' we have to admit that 'not all guests are to be found […]