Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage.

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

People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.

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

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.

Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write.

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.