“One hesitates to open a new chapter when the old one is not resolved.”

“One wouldn't wish to tempt fate”

“To marry is to narrow one's possibilities horribly.”

“It is presumptuous to draw conclusions about a person from what one has heard”

“No young woman of good breeding should show exclusive partiality to one partner all night.”

“She sincerely wishes success, for her new life, and intends that no failure of effort, temper, or spirits on her part will jeopardise it.”

“Anne’s is a world very like this one, and you can move about in it with familiarity - but not freedom: it is a place of rigorous consequence, where the weak have to give way to the strong, where her governess heroine Agnes must walk as best she can in the cold shade of money and masculinity.”