Miranda Neville quotes:

Did you have a good journey from Derbyshire?" he asked"How was Cuthbert?""Cousin Cuthbert lives in Kent," she replied calmly"I was in Somerset with the Brothertons.

On the whole she found erring children easier to deal with than their frantic parents, confirming her conclusion that marriage did strange things to the adult mind.

My darling love, I think you have a fundamental misconception about what it means to be a great dandy. I have better taste than anyone else so I don't care what anyone else thinks about anything. I am right and they are wrong."