While keeping house for a bachelor brother, she had seen, from a pleasantly sheltered standpoint, all that was most agreeable and amusing in the cultivated London world.
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
If I am an old bachelor, it is not for lack of trying to marry.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
So, when he told her to rest, and that he would get dinner and show her how a bachelor kept house, she let him go with no reply save that vague, impersonal smile which Kent had encountered at the depot.
"Lonesome Land"
B. M. Bower