It is well known that a man, when wooing a lady to be his wife, must first win over the females she most confides inโher friends, of course, and her sister, if she has one.
Anna GodbersenShe was like a heroine in a novel that she herself was writing the character kept protesting that she was too strong for love and yet the narrator went on describing her desire.
Anna GodbersenShe felt so much aware of her own beauty it seemed inconceivable that everybody else wouldn't notice the difference too.
Anna GodbersenDiana felt she was beginning to understand why, in all those novels she read, the headiest loves were the loves that couldn't be.
Anna GodbersenIt 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 herselfโfor she had known what Henryโs love was, and still she had gone back to suffer a little more at his hands.
Anna Godbersen