My God - it's a green child!" said the American. "What is this place - the House of Usher?

There is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love.

How can a young man like to wear a beard?

I wanted to know more about the young ... strange that though they laughed so loud, they so seldom smiled. Perhaps laughter was involuntary whereas smiling was part of an attitude to life.

Perhaps it would really be rather dull to be married and settled for life. Liar! It would be heaven.

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.

a loss of sensibility follows a loss of innocence, at once a penalty and a compensation.