'On their way home he took his father to task. "Of course you didn't mean the things you said in that lady's house?" he began.
"Why? Did I say anything I hadn't oughter?"
Harold frowned in wonder at his father's grammar, and replied severely, "You said a good many things that you couldn't have meant. You said a lie in time saves nine. You said consistency is the last refuge of a scoundrel. You said a lot of things[...]"'
from The Prodigal Father, a piece in Mademoiselle Miss and other stories by Henry Harland
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