Mildred

We haven't heard from Mildred for two years.

The red-eared slider turtles bask in the sun at the University of California Los Angeles Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden.

Mildred raised her eyes with a start of apprehension. There was a moment’s silence, during which a curious change came over the girlish face. The colour faded from the cheeks, the eyes hardened, the lips set themselves in a thin, straight line.

Queens drop away, while blue-legg'd Maukin lives; / Drones thrive when bees are burnt within their hives; / And courtly Mildred dies, while country Madge survives.

One day Dunsford told him her name was Mildred. He had heard one of the other girls in the shop address her. "What an odious name," said Philip. "Why?" asked Dunsford. "I like it." . "It's so pretentious."