It is the sex angle that sells stories, that makes news. give people scandal allied to sex and it appeals far more than any mere political chicanery or fraud.

The sons of rich men are proverbially wild.

You can't save someone who doesn't want to be saved.

Bad habit, lunch. A banana and a water biscuit is all any sane healthy man should need in the middle of the day.

The illusion that freedom is the prerogative of one's own particular race is fairly widespread.

Oh, quite so. Count them both in as possibles. She for jealousy. He for his career. Divorce would have dished that. Not that divorce means as much as it used to, but in his case it would have meant the antagonism of the Kidderminster clan.

I've always jumped on sentiment—and here I am being more sentimental than anybody. What idiots girls are! I've always thought so. I suppose I shall sleep with his photograph under my pillow, and dream about him all night. It's dreadful to feel you've been false to your principles.