"You're a young woman and a pretty one, and I have no doubt you'll marry again. But don't marry for love next time; it's a mistake - marry for position and companionship." Chap. 1, p. 5

"The Princess gave him another of those quiet smiling looks of hers in which there was the indulgence of an old rip who has neither forgotten nor repented of her naughty past and at the same time the shrewdness of a woman who knows the world like the palm of her hand and come to the conclusion that no one is any better than he should be." Chap. 2, p. 29

"People have been telling me I was beautiful since I was sixteen and it's ceased to excite me very much. It's an asset and I should be a fool not to know its value." Chap. 2, p. 41

"Give a plain woman a hat and a pretty...