“It was quite settled by now. She was born to be a spinster.”
“Accounts are not quite settled between us," said she, with a passion that equaled my own. "I can love, and I can hate. You had your choice. You chose to spurn the first; now you must test the other.”
“Not me, of course, as I am now officially a spinster librarian and must stay home with my cat and drink tea.”
“I am not in love with you," she said. "It is an infatuation. I have heard of such derangements happening to elderly spinsters.”
“After all, if spinster chaperons required their own spinster chaperons there simply wouldn't be enough to go around.”
“It was easy, terribly easy, to become with time a middle-aged spinster with a sharp tongue. She would have to guard against this.”