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

“He had been so friendly, and he had shown clearly that he did not think me in the least stupid--or, if he did, he liked it.”

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

“People often vented their rage on those who were the victims of their neglect because they were in truth blaming themselves.”

“Oh, the shame that I suffer now . . . the shame of a vanquished King.” And those were the last words of Henry Plantagenet.”

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

“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.”