The mystery story is two stories in one: the story of what happened and the story of what appeared to happen.
Mary Roberts RinehartCourage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.
Mary Roberts RinehartBesides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.
Mary Roberts RinehartThe fetish of the great university, of expensive colleges for young women, is too often simply a fetish. It is not based on a genuine desire for learning. Education today need not be sought at any great distance. It is largely compounded of two things, of a certain snobbishness on the part of parents, and of escape from home on the part of youth. And to those who must earn quickly it is often sheer waste of time. Very few colleges prepare their students for any special work.
Mary Roberts Rinehart