Rennie didn't quite dare to answer back, but she looked a whole book and a couple of extra chapters.

Of course it doesn't make sense." Lady Wendall said. "The rules of society rarely do.

News of Daniel's disappearance does not alarm me as it might have done a week ago. Given recent events, very little alarms me as it might have done a week ago. I feel as if my supply of alarm has been exhausted, at least temporarily.

I’d much rather have good teeth than have diamonds and roses drop out of my mouth whenever I said something

That is certainly one way to look at the matter. There are others.

In a lot of ways I was a generation ahead of my generation; I had a working mother wheneveryone else’s mother was staying at home.

Humility is as good for the soul as it is for the memory