I hate dainty minds,' answered Marjorie. 'But a girl has to be dainty in person. If she looks like a million dollars she can talk about Russia, ping-pong, or the League of Nations and get away with it.

The sun had gone down behind the tall apartments of the movie stars in the West Fifties, and the unclear voices of children, already gathered like crikets on the grass, rose through the hot twilight.

It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.

You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming.

Debut: the first time a young girl is seen drunk in public.

I used to build dreams about you.

Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.