Always stay sharp on railways and cruise ships for transit has a way of making everything clear.

I can't imagine what my life was before. I can't imagine ever being without you for very long again.

She considered herself unconventional.

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.

That was the way love was, she guessed-it left you always unsteady on your feet.

Though her emotions had not deviated from a jittery frailty she knew that in her own room she could at least attempt sleep and that if she dreamed she might then finally be with Henry.

It is a fact of big cities that one girl's darkest how is always another's moment of shining triumph, and New York is the biggest and cruelest city of them all.