Sometimes now was enough.
Sometimes it was everything.

“But there really was no hurry. It is time to love, he had said downstairs. And …”

“I wish," he said, "I had known at eighteen what I know now - that there are som…”

“Some things," she said, "are best not known for sure, Lord Trentham.”

“If I had smiled and fawned over you at Lady Mannering’s ball,” she said, “and i…”