I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.

Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husbands.

We're twins, and so we love each other more than other people.

... because I have fallen in love with so many pretty girls and never once the least bit with any man.

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

Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so quietly under the sober gowns, and many silent sacrifices of youth, health, ambition, love itself, make the faded faces beautiful in God's sight. Even the sad, sour sisters should be kindly dealt with, because they have missed the sweetest part of life, if for no other reason.

They were enjoying the happy hour that seldom comes but once in any life, the magical moment which bestows youth on the old, beauty on the plain, wealth on the poor, and gives human hearts a foretaste of heaven.