She was trying to sound tough and impatient, but she knew that vulnerable desire to be wooed was still brimming in her tone.

They will stop calling brides beautiful after today—you have simply set the standard too high,' he said.

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.

Always stay sharp on railways and cruise ships for transit has a way of making everything clear.

She felt so much aware of her own beauty it seemed inconceivable that everybody else wouldn't notice the difference too.

The world is such a marvel - it gave you trials, but if you were still and concentrated, if you tried to do the right thing, it always provided you with salvation.

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.