... the pummice-stone when, without the slightest warning, the floor beneath her disappeared from view, precipitating her and the bath with some violence into the scullery sink on the rez-de-cliaussee. Shaken, but quite uninjured, she re mained disporting herself ...

... thickest of a war of wars there'd actually be serious talk of a general election, with all its upsets and clogging of the war- machine, over the epoch-making problem of five bob a week more or less for workers on the land S S Not many signs of war-worry, either ...