To have you here, you mean-in reach and yet out of reach? To meet you in this way, on the sly? It's the very reverse of what I want.

The moment my eyes fell on him, I was content.

whatever the uses of a room, they are seriously interfered with if it be not preserved as a world by itself.

I'd almost say it's the worries that make married folks sacred to each other.

It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.

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

Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?