The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.

“What do you think of human intelligence?" asked Mavis Pellington lamely."Of who…”

“Mother, may I go and maffick,Tear around and hinder traffic?”

“And in the sting and misery of his defeat, he began to chant loudly and defiant…”

“Well in those parts (upcountry India) they have were-tigers, or think they have…”