As he paid the hansom and followed his wife's long train into the house he took refuge in the comforting platitude that the first six months were always the most difficult in marriage. 'After that I suppose we shall have pretty nearly finished rubbing off each other’s angles,' he reflected; but the worst of it was that May's pressure was already bearing on the very angles whose sharpness he most wanted to keep

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

...though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all spontaneity of feeling, and seemed to herself to be passively awaiting a fate she could not avert.

My last page is always latent in my first; but the intervening windings of the way become clear only as I write.

They are all alike you know. They hold their tongues for years and you think you're safe, but when the opportunity comes they remember everything.

Yes, one gets over things. But there are certain memories one can't bit on.

The early mist had vanished and the fields lay like a silver shield under the sun. It was one of the days when the glitter of winter shines through a pale haze of spring.