“She has done for me at last, Rachel my torment.”

“I would not be young again, if you offered me the world. But then I'm prejudiced.'
'You talk,' I said, 'as if you were ninety-nine.'
'For a woman I very nearly am,' she said. 'I'm thirty five.”

“A man’s jealousy is like a child’s, fitful and foolish, without depth. A woman’s jealousy is adult, which is very different.”

“...Women are not so, Philip. Their moods vary with the days and nights, sometimes even with the hours, just as a man’s can do. We are human, that is our failing.”

“it was worth the tedium of visitors to experience the pleasure of their going.”

“They used to hang men at Four Turnings in the old days.
Not anymore, though.”