familiarness

Updated: June 22, 2025

I mean, it isn't like Walter Mill, when he was just back from the Legation at Pekin, or even like Jimmy Wallace, who spends half his time playing around with all sorts of impossible people chorus-girls and such, and tells you queer stories about them. There's something besides the familiarness that makes husbands dull. And that's what makes Bertie amusing."

Henry Kitchell Webster - The Real Adventure