Miss Cayley's Adventures - Grant Allen - Bog

"[...]easily by New York and the White Star Liners. I began to feel like a globe-trotter already; the Cantankerous Old Lady was the thin end of the wedge-the first rung of the ladder! I proceeded to put my foot on it. EXCUSE ME, I SAID, BUT I THINK I SEE A WAY OUT OF YOUR DIFFICULTY. EXCUSE ME, I SAID, BUT I THINK I SEE A WAY OUT OF YOUR DIFFICULTY. I leaned around the corner of the tree and spoke. 'Excuse me, ' I said, in my suavest voice, 'but I think I see a way out of your difficulty.'[...]."