In New York there is always something to look at, but it is all infinitely more interesting through a window in the backseat of a limousine..

She considered herself unconventional..

Oh yes, well, I find myself unconventional everywhere..

It's the craziest thing, but I can't stop thinking about you..

That was how the heroine of a book would play it and Diana was still writing her own story the best heroines she'd always believed took their fate in….

Her life, she realized, had all the charm of a steel trap..

They will stop calling brides beautiful after today—you have simply set the standard too high,' he said..

They were all dressed in their finest as though life really were some magical stage play in which every moment ought to be illuminated with its own b….

Ah well that I can't tell you." Diana ducked her head so that the brim of her bonnet covered her face. "Some things must remain a mystery and for now….

Things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you..

The value of secrets is ever fluctuating although ladies who have been in society for a long time learn that a secret kept can be worth more than a s….

It had been an awful thing to lose Henry the first time, to matrimony, but to discover what a false front he was capable of was another kind of blow,….

Well, if you weren't flirting with him"-his voice had now grown a little plaintive-"who was he, and what did you want with him anyway?" "If you are s….

Life was a short window and there was no sense in doing the wrong thing over and over even if it was so difficult to stop..

There was no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale..

Henry shook his head, 'I was drunk,' he said, trying to sound both ashamed and firm in this belief. He remembered the rosebush incident very clearly,….

Diana felt she was beginning to understand why, in all those novels she read, the headiest loves were the loves that couldn't be..

Among her other talents were forgetting what she did not like and ignoring what she preferred not to see..

She had rarely been near Henry since then, and the sight of him now was like a concentrated dose..

Diana knew it wouldn't be right, but then she told herself that things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you..

There was plenty of life left and if he had to he would use it all to get her back. The time had passed for making promises to her-all that was left ….