_Wuthering_ _Heights_! Ah--that's more in my line.

I really couldn't exist without the Brontes! Don't you love them?
Still, on the whole, I'd rather live without them than without Jane Austen." Lightly and at random though she spoke, her manner conveyed an extraordinary degree of sympathy and desire to befriend.
"Jane Austen?
I don't like Jane Austen," said Rachel.
"You monster!" Clarissa exclaimed.

"I can only just forgive you.

Tell me why ?" "She's so--so--well, so like a tight plait," Rachel floundered.

"Ah--I see what you mean.