Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life.

He was handsome then if never before, bound for one of those immortal moments which come so radiantly that their remembered light is enough to see by for years.

When the lightning strikes one of us, it strikes both

but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.

What was it up there in the song that seemed to be calling her back inside? What would happen now in the dim, incalculable hours?

Men don’t often know those times when a girl could be had for nothing.

Marriage was created not to be a background but to need one. Mine is going to be outstanding. It can't, shan't be the setting - it's going to be the performance, the lively, lovely, glamorous performance, and the world shall be the scenery.