“I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea.”

“Did you think of anything when Miss Marcy said Scoatney Hall was being re-opened? I thought of the beginning of Pride and Prejudice – where Mrs. Bennet says 'Netherfield Park is let a last.' And then Mr. Bennet goes over to call on the rich new owner.”

“Still, looking through the old volumes was soothing, because thinking of the past made the present seem a little less real.”

“I don't want to miss anything.”

“Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.”

“Thinking of death--strange, beautiful, terrible and a long way off--made me feel happier than ever.”

“But some characters in books are really real--Jane Austen's are; and I know those five Bennets at the opening of Pride and Prejudice, simply waiting to raven the young men at Netherfield Park, are not giving one thought to the real facts of marriage.”