“I held you in the squareAnd felt the eveningRe-order itself aroundYour smile.”
“You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.”
“I glanced at Puck and smiled. "Are you going to stop me?"He held up his hands. "Wouldn't dream of it.”
“But Jack, you're just a Captain and I'm the General. I order you not to go. He tried to smile, . . . .These orders, he whispered, come from the Commander in Chief.”
“Just so you know, I'm straight. Totally straight. As an arrow."Her voice held a smile. "So am I”
“ I felt that the world itself had changed and that it would never be steady under my feet again. I felt I understood nothing of people and had no way to learn. I felt fear. Until you have felt fear, you cannot imagine it. Once you have really felt it, you know that all your earlier nervousness was but a pale shadow.”