One thing she still would not allow was that horrible erotic act which was a commonplace of American and European films, but she took complaisantly enough now to his other husbandly advances.

The Church of England is expected to be an overidle mother, who lets her children entirely alone, because those made her who had found the Church of Rome an overbusy mother.

[…] there was no neighbourliness, worth the word, between what the postmistress called ‘our old people’ and ‘that new set’. Polite calls paid by the former on the latter were as politely returned; but at that it ended. The gulf of mutual disinterest was unbridged.

The stars moved slowly athwart the sky.