They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises.

I don't write for any particular kind of person.

I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school.

Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love.

I found out only recently that we were making an index of enemy code signs.

A lot of people stop short. They don't actually die but they say, 'Right I'm old, and I'm going to retire,' and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring.

Rebecca is an example of how not to manage men. The rules of the game never change, it requires subtlety.