Romance at short notice was her speciality.

I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

And the vagueness of his alarm added to its terrors; when once you have taken the Impossible into your calculations its possibilities become practically limitless.

Her frocks are built in Paris, but she wears them with a strong English accent.

On horseback he seemed to require as many hands as a Hindu god, at least four for clutching the reins, and two more for patting the horse soothingly on the neck.