It may be Turkey’s third-largest city in terms of population, but in the congestion stakes İzmir has to be challenging for top honours.

Owing to a scarcity of coal in the University, we girls had an unexpected week of vacation, and the town girls helped us make the time fly, with kensingtons and bridge parties.

To be an electress is the greatest honour imaginable; and to be the husband of an electress—why, it doubles a man's income at once.

He lived rudderlessly, without ambition.