Ah well that I can't tell you." Diana ducked her head so that the brim of her bonnet covered her face. "Some things must remain a mystery and for now I think I'll keep my opinion of you and your compliments to myself.

What was it about that short creature with her wild hair and spurious air of purity and why would anyone much less two men love her and to such disastrous ends.

Diana knew it wouldn't be right, but then she told herself that things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you.

Girls," their mother interjected, "you must both stop being strange - it is unattractive. And don't forget your hats. It would be absolutely the end for me if you two came down with freckles at a time like this.

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

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

I can't imagine what my life was before. I can't imagine ever being without you for very long again.