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.

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.

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

Interesting" people were her favorite hobby. She collected them: the type who did gay things late at night and smoked cigarettes in mixed company, those would have most scandalized her own mother.

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

We see our sins reflected everywhere: in the pallor of our intimates’ faces, in the scratching of tree branches against windows, in the strange movements of everyday objects. These may be messages from God or tricks of the eye, but in neither case are we permitted to ignore them.