Friends come and go but I wouldn't have thought you'd be one of them

Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.

Once, when I was young and true. Someone left me sad - Broke my brittle heart in two; And that is very bad. Love is for unlucky folk, Love is but a curse. Once there was a heart I broke; And that, I think, is worse.

Somewhere, there, is an analogy, in a small way, if you have the patience for it. But I guess it isn't a very good anecdote. I'm better at animal stories.

For a few minutes, everything is so cute that the mind reels.... And then, believe it or not, things get worse. So I shot myself.

And where does she find them?

This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn't take on any other terms.