"I sometimes thought how strange it was that I should have managed to make a way for myself in London so very much like the life I had lived in a country rectory when my parents were alive," p. 11.

"No answer seemed to be needed or expected to this question, and we laughed together, a couple of women against the whole race of men," p. 23.

"You should see my bedside table, such a clutter of objects, cigarettes, cosmetics, aspirins, glasses of water, the Golden Bough, a detective story, and any object that happens to take my fancy," p. 27.

"I hesitated at the top of the stairs, feeling nervous and stupid, for this was a situation I had not experienced before, and my training did not seem to be quite equal to it," p. 30.

"I lay awake feeling thirsty and obscurely worried about something," p. 38.

"I could see very...