You love her," Teddy observed quietly. Henry replied with an uncharacteristic lack of irony: "Yes." Teddy's eyes shifted to the plaster interlacing that decorated the ceiling in curlicues. "Lord, you never make it easy, do you." "No.

She considered herself unconventional.

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

Though her emotions had not deviated from a jittery frailty she knew that in her own room she could at least attempt sleep and that if she dreamed she might then finally be with Henry.

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.

You don’t need to marry a man with millions. You only need to be your exquisite self.

She was full of some strange energy that morning. Her every movement had purpose and life and she seemed to find satisfaction in every little thing.