The value of secrets is ever fluctuating although ladies who have been in society for a long time learn that a secret kept can be worth more than a secret told.

A young lady's most natural ally is her sister although sometimes our own relatives are as inscrutable to us as an antipodean.

To look in the face of hard things and keep moving forward - that's what one has to do.

Her life, she realized, had all the charm of a steel trap.

In New York there is always something to look at, but it is all infinitely more interesting through a window in the backseat of a limousine.

He turned his dark eyes on the girl whom he had dreamed of so often over the previous months. Beside him, at that very moment of existence, at the heart of torrential downpour, she was exquisitely real, and she, too, seemed content to go on sitting there forever.

As she always did on any really important day, Penelope Hayes wore red.