“She suddenly found herself laughing without bitterness.”

“She wanted to be alone - to think things out - to adjust herself, if it were possible, to the new world in which she seemed to have been transplanted with a suddenness and completeness that left her half bewildered to her own identity.”

“Poor soul, she always knew everything about her neighbors, but she never was very well acquainted with herself.”

“Look, do you see that poem?' she said suddenly, pointing.”

“He had also the reputation of being a bit of a lady killer. But that probably accrued to him from his possession of a laughing, velvety voice which no girl could hear without a heartbeat, and a dangerous way of listening as if she were saying something that he had longed all his life to hear.”

“Her beauty is the least of her dower-and she is the most beautiful woman I've ever known. That laugh of hers! I've angled all summer to evoke that laugh, just for the delight of hearing it.”

“She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend - as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.”