I for one don't want to be ranked among idiots, felons, and minors any longer, for I am none of them.

Oh, Jo, how could you? Your one beauty.

Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what a comfort that is.

Don't cry so bitterly, but remember this day, and resolve with all your soul that you will never know another like it.

During the fifteen minutes that followed, the proud and sensitive girl suffered a shame and pain which she never forgot. To others it might seem a ludicrous or trivial affair, but to her it was a hard experience, for during the twelve years of her life she had been governed by love alone

... for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted.

The young people were playing that still more absorbing game in which hearts are always trumps.