Many years have passed and the house is empty still, and the Malee, grown grey and frail, is still in charge.
— from Concerning Animals and Other Matters by Edward Hamilton Aitken
They came to her and she went to them; their pastimes and pleasures were hers; and if there was not, perhaps, among them her intellectual equal, she had not yet felt the need of such companionship, but had been satisfied to have them hold her as a good companion who otherwise possessed much strange and perhaps useless knowledge quite beyond their compass.
— from The Business of Life by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
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