I used to attend scientific experiments when I was a girl at school. They invariably ended in an explosion. If Mr. Jennings will be so very kind, I should like to be warned of the explosion this time. With a view to getting it over, if possible, before I go to bed.

I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.

There are three things that none of the young men of the present generation can do.They can't sit over their wine;they can't play at wist;and they can't pay a lady a compliment.

Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do us.

She looked so irresistibly beautiful as she said those brave words that no man alive could have steel his heart against her.

What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their finding-places in a woman's dressing-gown, when she is alone in her room at night!

I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool night air in the suburbs.