“Dear Valentine, I love you. Whoever you are.”
“I think of you often, dear, and with such concentrated wishes that it really must help you in some way.”
“...soon dinner will run into bed-time, and we shall all eat reclining like the ancient Romans--about whose digestion, you know, I have often wondered. Whether a dose of rhubabrb might have made a difference to Nero or Caligula is a question you might ponder, my dear, next time you go through your Tacitus.”
“I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.”
“Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.”