She told him in a dozen ways, of which the best was without words, how she had missed him. Her emotion reassured him, promised his anxious heart that everything would be all right".

“They were still in the happier stages of love. They were full of brave illusion…”

“There was one of his lonelinesses coming, one of those times when he walked the…”

“The transition from libertine to prig was so complete.”

“Her beautiful eyes and lips were very grave as she made her choice, and Anthony…”