“Diana knew it wouldn't be right, but then she told herself that things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you.”

“Things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you.”

“Diana felt she was beginning to understand why, in all those novels she read, the headiest loves were the loves that couldn't be.”

“Henry turned his hat in his hands but went on looking at Diana in a way that made her want to crawl into his arms and stay there forever.”

“It had been too much for Edith to take and she had gone to her room so that her nieces wouldn't see her cry anymore.”

“She found herself longing for home-not just for the hotel but for New York and all the real novels that she could lose herself in there.”

“Ah well that I can't tell you." Diana ducked her head so that the brim of her bonnet covered her face. "Some things must remain a mystery and for now I think I'll keep my opinion of you and your compliments to myself.”