She had had no idea what it would do to her seeing him in a suit.

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

Henry shook his head, 'I was drunk,' he said, trying to sound both ashamed and firm in this belief. He remembered the rosebush incident very clearly, of course, but he knew that sneaking into the bedroom window of his fiancee's little sister wasn't something he wanted to explain to his father. Sometimes, Henry reflected, being taken for a perpetual drunk was sort of convenient.

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

A man is made in the rough-and-tumble of the world a lady emerges from the flossy back rooms of her own imagination.

She found herself longing for home-not just for the hotel but for New York and all the real novels that she could lose herself in there.

Among her other talents were forgetting what she did not like and ignoring what she preferred not to see.