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

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

Already she could feel the stunning weight of a lifetime of regret for letting him go, and she knew that it was enought to bury her alive.

It had been an awful thing to lose Henry the first time, to matrimony, but to discover what a false front he was capable of was another kind of blow, and it had left her almost speechless. Then there was the fury with herself—for she had known what Henry’s love was, and still she had gone back to suffer a little more at his hands.

Interesting" people were her favorite hobby. She collected them: the type who did gay things late at night and smoked cigarettes in mixed company, those would have most scandalized her own mother.

There was no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale.

Things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you.