Are you watching the boats?' Cornelia guessed. She craned her neck to see if there was any excitement on the river.Heavens no, I'm spying on people,' Virginia responded unrepentantly.-Cornelia E and Virginia Somerset.

— Lesley M.M. Blume

Patsy had asked him if he had had adventures in Paris and he had truthfully answered no. It was a fact that he had done nothing; his father thought he had had a devil of a time and was afraid he had contracted a venereal disease, and he hadn't even had a woman; only one thing had happened to him, it was rather curious when you came to think of it, and he didn't just then quite know what to do about it: the bottom had fallen out of his world.

— W. Somerset Maugham