Those who live in memories are never really dead." The House At Riverton

No two people will ever see or feel things in the same way, Merry. The challenge is to be truthful when you write. Don't approximate. Don't settle for the easiest combination of words. Go searching instead for those that explain exactly what you think. What you feel.

Curiosity might have killed the cat, but little girls usually fared much better.

Oh, there was harm indeed for a young lady flattered by the brief attentions of a handsome man.

And then he was kissing her, and she was struck by his nearness, his solidity, his smell. It was of the garden and the earth and the sun. When Cassandra opened her eyes, she realized she was crying. She wasn't sad, though, these were the tears of being found, of having come home after a long time away.

Hope's one thing, expectation's quite another.

A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting.