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“Money, money, money! I think about money morning, noon and night! I dare say it’s mercenary of me, but there it is!” “Same here,” agreed Tommy with feeling. “I’ve thought over every imaginable way of getting it too,” continued Tuppence. “There are only three! To be left it, to marry it, or to make it.
That’s the curious part about speaking the truth. No one does believe it.
“I’ve often noticed that once coincidences start happening they go on happening in the most extraordinary way. I dare say it’s some natural law that we haven’t found out.
it’s so lovely to think of things—and then for them really to happen!”
“Every revolution has had its honest men. They are soon disposed of afterwards.”
Don’t be offended because I think you’re young. Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown.
“What fun it will be,” responded Tuppence. “Marriage is called all sorts of things, a haven, and a refuge, and a crowning glory, and a state of bondage, and lots more. But do you know what I think it is?” “What?” “A sport!” “And a damned good sport too,” said Tommy.
