She had now reached an age when one starts looking for a husband rather more systematically than one does at nineteen or even at twenty-one.

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.

Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.

The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.

Yes, it seems that things like that should go on in London... It is better taste somehow that a man should be unfaithful to his wife away from home.

But at least it made one realize that life still held infinite possibilities for change.