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

Oh yes, well, I find myself unconventional everywhere.

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

What was it about that short creature with her wild hair and spurious air of purity and why would anyone much less two men love her and to such disastrous ends.

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.

Love is all right, as things go, but lovers can be a terrible waste of a girl's time.

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.