Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.

The small town smart set is deadly serious about its smartness.

Emma McChesney was engaged in that nerve-wracking process known as getting things out of the way. When Emma McChesney aimed to get things out of the way she did not use a shovel; she used a road-drag.

The very rich and the very social are, often, the very stuffy.

It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.

A story must simmer in its own juice for months or even years before it's ready to serve.

But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and prophyry. Life has no weapons against a woman like that.