“People's clothes ought to be buried with them.”

“If you love people, you take them on trust.”

“I should rather like to tear these last pages out of the book. Shall I? No-a journal ought not to cheat.”

“I like seeing people when they can't see me.”

“I know all about the facts of life, and I don't think much of them.”

“It is part of a follow-my-leader game of second-best we have all been playing . . . it isn't a very good game; the people you play it with are apt to get hurt.”

“Oh I daresay she can't help it - she's one of the women who oughn't be loved too kindly when they are some primitive desire for brutality makes them try to provoke it.”