The Navy speaks in symbols and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words.

It meant that Diana had not waited for any explanation, however halting and imperfect, but had condemned him unheard; and this showed a much harder, far less affectionate woman than the Diana he had known or had thought he knew - a mythical person, no doubt created by himself. It had of course been evident from her letter, which made no reference to his; but he had not chosen to see the evidence and now it was absolutely forced upon his sight it made his eyes sting and tingle again. And deprived of his myth he felt extraordinarily lonely.

That would be locking the horse after the stable door is gone, a very foolish thing to do.

After all a book can be represented as a conversation with one’s demon.

We understood one another better before ever I opened my mouth

I know of few men over 50 that seem to me entirely human, virtually none who has long exercised authority.

For a moment Jack felt the strongest inclination to snatch up his little gilt chair and beat the white-faced man down with it.