What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?
Above all, she wanted to look as though she had not given the matter a moment's thought, and that would take time.
Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit.
i'm going mad, i told myself. let me not be mad.
Dearest Cecilia, You’d be forgiven for thinking me mad, the way I acted this afternoon. The truth is I feel rather light headed and foolish in your presence, Cee, and I don’t think I can blame the heat.