It's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it?

I wish I were dead, or that it were tomorrow night,' groaned Phil.

War was a hellish, horrible hideous thing - too horrible and hideous to happen in the twentieth century between civilised nations.

No use in taking a cat's opinion of a dog.

But was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one's imagination of it?

All in all, it was a never-to-be-forgotten summer — one of those summers which come seldom into any life, but leave a rich heritage of beautiful memories in their going — one of those summers which, in a fortunate combination of delightful weather, delightful friends and delightful doing, come as near to perfection as anything can come in this world.

All life lessons are not learned at college,'she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.