The hand will often reveal more than the countenance.

There is no suffering like a child's, terrified by a secret which it dare not for some reason disclose.

The very shadows seem to listen.

It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own.

Though I have had no adventures, I feel capable of them.

a woman with a secret may be a fascinating study, but she can never be a safe, nor even satisfactory, companion.

He who steps on stones is glad to feel the smallest spray of moss beneath his feet.