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.

She was trying to sound tough and impatient, but she knew that vulnerable desire to be wooed was still brimming in her tone.

Heart-stopping envy is the sincerest form of flattery.

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

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.

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.

In New York there is always something to look at, but it is all infinitely more interesting through a window in the backseat of a limousine.