Sure of her sympathy and understanding, he told Mrs. Maule all that the veteran's words had meant to him, and at once, as was her wont,-though he remained quite unconscious of it,-she brought the subject round to the personal, the intimate standpoint: "You don't know," she said softly, "what it means to me to know that you met that dear old man here."
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
Mrs. Venables, as she said, found the Roman Catholic standpoint quite immensely interesting.
"The Furnace"
Rose Macaulay
Anyhow, if that's what mother would call your "mental standpoint," I'm a little sorry for Miss Crevequer.
"The Furnace"
Rose Macaulay