I only said I would stop talking to you, he'd written. I never promised to stop loving you.

““You don’t expect love.” She shook her head in confusion. “This is the second t…”

“If people did not fear me so, how could anyone tolerate me?”

“Mrs Farleigh," he called. She stopped and gave him her shoulder, not quite meet…”

“This is why people are so hard to understand. I cannot even estimate their grav…”