I never did write a biography, and I don't exactly know how to set about it; you see I have to be accurate and keep to the facts, a most difficult thing for a writer of fiction.

A girl in love will do a good deal.

It is bad to believe you in error. It would be infinitely worse to have known you a hypocrite.

Margaret was not a ready lover, but where she loved she loved passionately, and with no small degree of jealousy.

I dare say there's many a woman makes as sad a mistake as I have done, and only finds it out too late.

How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today?

One word more. You look as if you thought it tainted you to be loved by me. You cannot avoid it. Nay, I, if I would, cannot cleanse you from it. But I would not, if I could. I have never loved any woman before: my life has been too busy, my thoughts too much absorbed with other things. Now I love, and will love. But do not be afraid of too much expression on my part.