“Her chances of a decent marriage were about to be dashed-and all because of a ferret.”

“She ran out of her marriage the way a woman can run out of a pair of sandals when she decides to let go and really dash.”

“After marriage came elation, and then, gradually, the growth of weariness. Responsibility descended upon Merlin, the responsibility of making his thirty dollars a week and her twenty suffice to keep them respectably fat and to hide with decent garments the evidence that they were.”

“Yvette had never talked about her marriage - she was a smart girl, and she knew you had no right to complain about someone you got all the way to the altar with. You made that choice, even if you were a child when you did it, and the marriage vow was sacred.”

“Miss Bingley's congratulations to her brother, on his approaching marriage, were all that was affectionate and insincere.”

“Even after so many years of marriage, there were things she didn't know about her husband's life!”