Laurie, you're an angel! How shall I ever thank you?" "Fly at me again. I rather liked it," said Laurie, looking mischievous, a thing he had not done for a fortnight.

…men never forgive like women.

Love is apt to make lunatics of even men and saints.

Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace.

Be worthy love, and love will come.

No woman should give her happiness into the keeping of a man without fixed principles.

So she enjoyed herself heartily, and found, what isn't always the case, that her granted wish was all she had hoped.