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

Oh yes, well, I find myself unconventional everywhere.

Heart-stopping envy is the sincerest form of flattery.

Diana felt she was beginning to understand why, in all those novels she read, the headiest loves were the loves that couldn't be.

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.

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.

They were a society whose chief vocations were to entertain and be entertained.