A young woman, newly wed, may find herself in the delightful position of wanting to do nothing without the company of her darling husband. She may indeed discover that she spends all her waking hours with her fellow to the exclusion of every other friend or family member. This is understandable, but wholly unacceptable, to society.

Among her other talents were forgetting what she did not like and ignoring what she preferred not to see.

Living too much in one's head can be dangerous.

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

Even when a girl is married she still never completely leaves her mother and father's home.

That is what I want to tell you about: the girls with their short skirts and bright eyes and big-city dreams. The girls of 1929.

Good night.' Diana summoned all the dignity that she could manage in her bedraggled state and began to move back up the beach. Her dress was soaked and her stockings dotted with sand and her heart couldn't possibly withstand any more.