Not one married pair in ten thousand have felt for each other as two or three couples do in every novel.

There is the sexual instinct, of course, but that is quite a different thing; the novelists daren't talk about that.

The paltry creatures daren't tell the one truth that would be profitable.

The result is that women imagine themselves noble and glorious when they are most near the animals.

This Miss Royston--when she rushed off to perdition, ten to one she had in mind some idiot heroine of a book.