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

It is well known that a man, when wooing a lady to be his wife, must first win over the females she most confides in—her friends, of course, and her sister, if she has one.

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.

She felt so much aware of her own beauty it seemed inconceivable that everybody else wouldn't notice the difference too.

They were a society whose chief vocations were to entertain and be entertained.

The world is such a marvel - it gave you trials, but if you were still and concentrated, if you tried to do the right thing, it always provided you with salvation.

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.