... curtain rises, Mrs. James Whichelo is seated, speaking up the tube. She is dressed in the latest Japanese fashion, hair also, with a huge chrysanthemum over each ear, and one or tivo small fans. Mrs. W. (speaking up the tube). My dear Sybil, like every other ...

... d'ye mean Why do you look at me like that Hates me like poison, I tell you never misses a chance of Mrs. De Rinzy, you must speak out. I insist. I- I Mrs. De Rinzy (sinking on chair) Oh I had no idea of this. I thought you understood. Hubert You don't mean ...

... louder.) Charles! (Still no response.) Er, Mr. Parch!!! Charles (flinging aside paper, sitting half up) Eh, what Oh, you were speaking then (Throws away cigarette, yawns, and sits over edge of chair.) Well, what's the matter now Cook given notice or the h ...

... with her big blue eyes.) I am so glad. Captain Soames Yes, I assure you I hate married women I would not cross the street to speak to one. Eve Poor things I suppose, for instance, you would never offer to look after one or give her lunch at a race meeting ...

... engagement was six months off, and David was impatient Margaret also, perhaps, but did not say so. He, being the man, could speak more openly than she, the maid, upon a subject so near to their hearts. Away went David Ambler to Mr. Goldsack, a subtle design ...

... to have seen the actual artist. Utilitarian Traveller It is marvellous what science can do in the twentieth century. Plain-speaking Traveller Where should we be without our ironclads You can't gainsay that. Traveller [in his cups) Who's gainsaying OPERATOR ...

... of a tower. Yforgette Some evil will happen in a day or two, for the moon is like a silver ball. Creme DE Menthe (off, and speaking like a ghost of dead hopes) On the contrary, the moon is like a green cheese. Yforgette (intelligently) Then some evil will ...

... house. I always told him so. And he would certainly have altered it had he lived. The Widow You knew him personally that is to speak to The Colonelish Person {with improper pride) My dear madam, in the whirl of London life who doesn't one know The Widow { ...

... exaggeration to the police's gloom. F. R. An admirable idea and one that is warranted by the text. Does not Hamlet himself speak of the dejected haviour of his visage G. G. JUNIOR That clearly points to a funereal growth of limp black whiskers. What simpler ...

... y, 1 can't believe that there are so many asses in the world. Mr. Irving {with sarcasm True friends are those who never speak to one on the subject of Hamlet. F. R. {attempting to take the hint and becoming reminiscent) You know, Harry, there was a ...

... well. But I always say that -when a man's looking awfully well (cryptically) it's a deuced bad sign. Mr. P. T. B. Nicholson (speaking as a man who is in the ..movement) Been to Mount Charles Mr. Frederick Robinson (one of the most notorious literary nonentities ...

... y in gold chain purse, presses tip into his hand. He departs with beaming face. Beam fades on finding tip is 6d. C J. who speaks with a slight snuffle, apologetically) I had to give him something Lord Basingham was on the plat form watching me, and I ...