George the Third Ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder. - Edmund Clerihew Bentley

You may as well know, Philip — you'll soon find out, anyhow — the truth is she will flirt with any man that she doesn't actively dislike. She's so brimful of life she can't hold herself in — or she won't, rather; she says there's no harm in it, and she doesn't care if there is. Before her marriage she didn't go on in that way, but since it turned out badly she has been simply uncivilized on that point. And her being perfectly clear-headed about it makes it so much worse.

Is it a cosmic law, d'you think, that conceited men's hats are always too small?

That is almost the definition of any friendship that is worthwhile — that we don't care a damn how you behave yourself.