Unanswered questions make my head itch.

It’s always good business practice to eliminate any potential avengers.

It took determination to be really strange. That, or absinthe before breakfast every day.

If you are not scared then there is no merit in being brave.

My head throbbed and my mouth tasted like incontinent parrots had roosted there overnight. I.

Phryne read a detective story, frequently going back because she suddenly found herself reading a conversation between two characters she had not met before –.

Miss? Miss Phryne? Are you all right?’ ‘Come in, Dot. I’m fine. Some son of unmarried parents just tried to kidnap me.’ ‘What did you do with the body, Miss?

One only has a few fragrant nights of spring. Store your memories for when you are old. You will enjoy them again under such a moon as this.

And is it any wonder that the poor woman broke out into fairies when she had been deprived of any fiction in her youth?

One invited artists to social events, but only for the pleasure of their company. To invite singers or dancers to perform for their supper was inexpressively vulgar, and deserved a prompt and stinging rebuke.