"In this sweet coterie we inhabit, there's always that chance." "There are good women in it, good wives.

Your sister is in it." "Yes, and I mean to take her out," said Duane grimly.

"Do you think I want Naida to marry some money-fattened pup in this set ?" "Where can you take her ?" "Where I'm going in future myself--among people whose brains are not as obsolete as my appendix; where there still exist standards and old-fashioned things like principles and religion, and a healthy terror of the Decalogue!" "Is anybody really still afraid of the Decalogue ?" she asked curiously.
"Even we are, but some of us are more afraid of ennui.

Fire and fear are the greatest purifiers in the world; it's fear of some sort or other, and only fear, that keeps the world as decent as it is." "I'm not afraid," she said, playing with her fan.

"I'm only afraid of dying before I have lived at all." "What do you call living ?" "Being loved," she said, and looked up at him.
"You poor little thing!" he said, only partly in earnest.
"Yes, I'm sorry for the girl I was....