“Hell, what was one more scandal?”

“HOrrible. The most horrible sound on earth. The sound of death and torture and the agonies of a burning hell," Lisle said. "Damn them. It's bagpipes.”

“I expected a good deal more from you," Marcelline said, "You bungled it.""Yes," he said. "What else could I do? I was asking the wrong woman to marry me.”

“There is no animal more invincible than a woman,”

“...it was hard to hide one's emotion from one's own kind.”

“We're of one mind, Grenville and I, and the mind is hers, on account of my being a man and not having one.”

“You refuse to listen. Because, like every other man, you can keep only one idea in your head at a time-usully the wrong one.”