There Is Nothin' Like A Dame

'[...] They think a lot of her in educational circles, so much so that she was made a Dame in the last Birthday Honours, a thing that's never likely to happen to you or me. I often wonder who had the idea of calling these women Dames. Probably an American. There's nothing like a dame, he told them, and they agreed with him, and so the order came into being. [...]'

Galahad at Blandings. Chapter 3.IV

He could well understand why for so many theatrical seasons worshipping audiences had been falling at her feet and why a gracious sovereign, feeling that there is nothing like a dame, had made her one.

The Girl in Blue. Chapter 5.III