It is a truth universally acknowledged that a thirty-something woman in possession of a satisfying career and fabulous hairdo must be in want of very little

No small thing, a bee's sting When it enters the heart Not so benign, the growing vine When it tears stone apart

Miss Hayes, have you stopped to consider that you might have this all backward? That in fact you are my fantasy?

I couldn't see what was real until time had washed away everything else.

Years ago, before this estate was generously and unwillingly turned over to the crown, the lord here was a genuine dimwit. He had a minister stashed behind his throne to whisper clever things to say.

Don't beat yourself up," said Charlotte. "True love can be so easily mistaken for other things-friendship, humane concern, indigestion.

There you go...let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears.