“Gentlemen, if my love for you equaled my ignorance of everything concerning you, it would indeed be unbounded.”

“She took his hand and kissed it fervently. "I can never thank you enough for all you have given me. You snatched me from the dark pit of despair, of horror, and you set me here in the sunshine.”

“How stupid lovers can be! But if they were not, there would be no story.”

“Her fault had been in trying to keep it as tight as a mistress might. All a wife needed was a little more subtlety, and it had taken her two years of doubts and nightmares to realize this. Let him wander away from her, let him dally with others--it would but be to compare them with his incomparable queen.”

“But our lives were not as they seemed, were they, Sophia? No one's life ever is.”

“...his dearest wish was that he could have a quiet life free from his obligations.”

“They were seated at the banquet side by side, immediately good friends, their great attraction being that each of them knew there was nothing to fear from the other.”