I could not ask forgiveness for something I had not done. As scapegoat, I could only bear the fault.

People who travel are always fugitives.

No, Mary had no illusions about romance. Falling in love was a pretty name for it, that was all.

How pleasant,' Dona said, peeling her fruit; 'the rest of us can only run away from time to time, and however much we pretend to be free, we know it is only for a little while - our hands and our feet are tied.

We can see the film stars of yesterday in yesterday’s films, hear the voices of poest and singers on a record, keep the plays of dead dramatists upon our bookshelves, but the actor who holds his audience captive for one brief moment upon a lighted stage vanishes forever when the curtain falls.

What about the hero of The House on the Strand? What did it mean when he dropped the telephone at the end of the book? I don't really know, but I rather think he was going to be paralysed for life. Don't you?

Come and see us if you feel like it,' she said. 'I always expect people to ask themselves. Life is too short to send out invitations.