Everything may be labelled- but everybody is not.

It is so easy for a woman to become what the man she loves believes her to be

... even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump.

Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their innate tendency to have things happen to them.

It was amusement enough to be with a group of fearless and talkative girls, who said new things in a new language, who were ignorant of tradition and unimpressed by distinctions of rank; but it was soon clear that their young hostesses must be treated with the same respect, if not with the same ceremony as English girls of good family.

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

She gave so many reasons that I've forgotten them all.