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

Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.

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

So this is how life was, she thought with a faint smile: It wore you down until you emerged at its wildest, most unexpected ends.

It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.

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

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.