"Father ... appeared to take it for granted that his daughter would continue about him as before, side by side with hi…"

"Father was very pleasant indeed, if faintly apologetic — not embarrassed, for he was never that, but there was a fain…"

"You see, what has happened has taken away my faith in goodness—I don't know who you are that I keep on wanting to tel…"

"Looking out of the club window into —hers was an economical club, but convenient for , where she lived, and for 's, w…"

"Once I knew a bishop rather intimately—oh, nothing that wasn't most creditable to us both—and he said to me, "Dear ch…"

"... Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and …"

"She was an exceedingly pretty girl, who ought to have been enjoying herself. She had a soft, irregular face, charming…"

"By the time she was twenty-four, nearly all the girls who had when she did were married, and she felt as though she w…"

"Pitied? Horrid thought. The great thing in life was to be so situated that you can pity others. But to be pitied your…"

""... I haven't had much time to think, have I? But I can't stay here," said Jen quickly ... "There isn't room for two…"