My dear girl, you don't consent to an abduction! You consent to an elopement, and I knew you wouldn't do that.

I wish you did return my regard," he said. "More than I have ever wished anything in my life! Perhaps you may yet learn to do so: I should warn you that I don't easily despair!

The Marquis believed himself to be hardened against flattery. He thought that he had experienced every variety, but he discovered that he was mistaken: the blatantly worshipful look in the eyes of a twelve-year-old, anxiously raised to his, was new to him, and it pierced his defences.

I remember only what interests me.

I feel an almost overwhelming interest in the methods of daylight abduction employed by the modern youth.

There is nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments.

Well, you have the right to make a sacrifice of yourself, but I'll be damned if I'll let you sacrifice me!