I am well in body although considerable rumpled up in spirit.

Have you ever noticed how many silences there are Gilbert? The silence of the woods....of the shore....of the meadows....of the night....of the summer afternoon. All different because the undertones that thread them are different.

Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!

You are the only person who loves me in the world," said Elizabeth. "When you talk to me I smell violets.

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

I'm afraid of those cows,' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape. 'The very idea of your being scared of those cows,' scoffed Davy. 'Why, they're both younger than you.

I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself.