They were all dressed in their finest as though life really were some magical stage play in which every moment ought to be illuminated with its own bright spotlight.

Don't go looking for boys in the dark They will say pretty things then leave you with scars. Do go looking for boys in the park For that is where the true gentlemen are.

It seemed to her as though everything that was good and true had been blasted out of the world. All those things had been crushed destroyed made to disappear.

A man is made in the rough-and-tumble of the world a lady emerges from the flossy back rooms of her own imagination.

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

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

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