“Wouldn't it be dreadful to live in a country where they didn't have tea?”
“I'd like to have the kind of house someday where a carousel horse wouldn't be out of place in the living room.”
“Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.”
“Really to see where you've come from, you have to go someplace else. Otherwise you wouldn't understand that the world didn't finish at the end of your street.”
“Passion is all very well, but it wouldn't do to spill the tea.”
“How strange it (the earthquake) must all have seemed to them, here where they lived so safely always! They thought such a dreadful thing could happen to others, but not to them. That is the way!”