“Diana wore a men's bowler with the intials H. W. S. sewn into the lining and an old French army coat.”

“Diana knew it wouldn't be right, but then she told herself that 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.”

“That was how the heroine of a book would play it and Diana was still writing her own story the best heroines she'd always believed took their fate into their own hands.”

“As she always did on any really important day, Penelope Hayes wore red.”

“She thought of Henry and Diana on the stoop gazing at each other with the confusion and sadness of two puppies who have just stumbled into their first puddle and not yet come to understand what has happened to them and found that she wanted to lie extravagantly.”