There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free.

We ought to be opening a bottle of wine!

She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company.

One of the first obligations of art is to make all useful things beautiful.

there are lots of ways of answering a letter - and writing doesn't happen to be mine.

I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there when you're sick and when you're lonesome.

She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given up the thing you most wanted." Archer received this strange communication in silence. His eyes remained unseeingly fixed on the thronged sunlit square below the window. At length he said in a low voice: "She never asked me.