“Is he all right?" Jade asked Sterns.He Swooned"I know he swooned," Jade replied.”

“I felt like swooning - women swooned so much in the old days because of all the sexual repression - well, I know how they felt. I felt like swooning.”

“Swoon, Dora. Every young woman deserves to swoon over the love of her life.”

“He didn't want me to get hurt? Wow. Just wow. I might actually be close to a swoon here”

“A couple of times he called the second he'd finished reading a novel and just had to tell me about it, and I know it sounds hokey and librarianish to say so, but I just swooned when he did that.”

“I know why you want to wear the plum,” Marcelline said. “It’s ravishing. It’ll make Longmore swoon.”“It might make him do some things,” Sophy said. “But swooning isn’t one of them. He’s the sort of man who tells a girl he l-loves her—and then l-laughs. As thoughit’s a j-joke.”