If anybody apologizes it ought to be him, and he can't talk half as good as he can trot.
"Dixie Hart"
Will N. Harben
Coming in suddenly upon the dinner-hour of the country clergyman, the housewife apologizes for what she calls "a picked-up" dinner, when, alas!
"Around The Tea-Table"
T. De Witt Talmage
No hostess ever apologizes, or appears to hear or see anything disagreeable.
"Manners and Social Usages"
Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
