Jane's stories are extremely sensible. Then Diana puts too many murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn't know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get rid of them.

Nothing ever seems impossible in spring, you know.

There was something in her movements that made you think she never walked but always danced.

Life owes me something more than it has paid me and I'm going out to collect it.

There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.

Before this war is over,' [Walter] said - or something said through his lips - 'every man and woman and child in Canada will feel it - you, Mary, will feel it - feel it to your heart's core. You will weep tears of blood over it. The Piper has come - and he will pipe until every corner of the world has heard his awful and irresistible music. It will be years before the dance of death is over - years, Mary. And in those years millions of hearts will break.

It's as easy to give away a million as a hundred if you have not got either.