She was a vision in a white gown her dark hair forming a hazy halo around her rosy heart-shaped face. Her long lashes fluttered to touch her cheeks and then her eyes opened fully in his direction. Her small round mouth flexed in an immediate and knowing smile. That's the girl I'm going to marry Henry thought.

So this is how life was, she thought with a faint smile: It wore you down until you emerged at its wildest, most unexpected ends.

You don’t need to marry a man with millions. You only need to be your exquisite self.

Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.

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

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.

She had had no idea what it would do to her seeing him in a suit.