"Really, my friend, I cannot understand your point of view in this matter.
You could not expect me to mix up a secret honeymoon with my present commitments!" "There might surely have been some middle way ?" Seaman persisted.

"You show so much tact in other matters." "You do not know the Princess," Dominey muttered.
Rosamund joined them for luncheon, bringing news of Stephanie's sudden departure, with notes and messages for everybody.

Caroline made a little grimace at her host.
"You're in trouble!" she whispered in his ear.

"All the same, I approve.
I like Stephanie, but she is an exceedingly dangerous person." "I wonder whether she is," Dominey mused.
"I think men have generally found her so," Caroline replied.

"She had one wonderful love affair, which ended, as you know, in her husband being killed in a duel and her lover being banished from the country.
Still, she's not quite the sort of woman to be content with a banished lover.