Am I really admitting that my sister is determined to marry a man she has only seen once and doesn't much like the look of? It is half real and half pretense - and I have an idea that it is a game most girls play when they meet an eligible young men. They just...wonder.

Oh, it is wonderful to wake up in the morning with things to look forward to!

Americans do seem to say things which make the English notice England.

Stew's so comforting on a rainy day.

What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?

And at last father flung the rug off as if it were hampering him and strode over to the table saying, 'cocoa, cocoa!'-- it might have been the most magnificent drink in the world; which, personally, I think it is.

I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.