"Perhaps I never did really love Mr.Holland.Perhaps I only fancied I cared for him because I saw that so many other girls--took to wearing chocolates and grays and kept their sleeves down just when sleeves were highest." "Of course it was only natural that you should wish to--well, colloquially, to wipe the eyes of the other girls.

How many girls, I should like to know, begin to think of a man as a possible husband until they perceive that the thoughts of other girls are turned in his direction ?" "At any rate, whatever I may have done long ago--" "Three months ago." "Three months ago.

Whatever I may have done then, I know that I don't love him now." "Don't be too sure, my dear Phyllis.

If there is one thing more than another about which a woman should never be positive, it is whether or not she loves a particular man.

What mistakes they make! No, I'll never believe that you turned him adrift simply because he wrote something disparagingly about Solomon, or was it David?
And I did so want you and him for my next day; I meant it to be such a _coup_, to have returned to town only a week and yet to have the most outrageously unorthodox parson at my house.