Miss Mole

Quotes

• “In Prince's Road, however, there were not many people and such as there were walked quietly, as though the influence of the old terraced houses on one side of the road were stronger than that of the later buildings on the other.”

• “These,' she smiled maliciously, 'are not my best clothes--but very nearly. My shoes, however,' she thrust out a surprisingly elegant foot, 'will always stand inspection.'”

• “And truth, after all, was a relative good: it had to be adulterated and adapted, like a drug, to the constitution of each individual, and Hannah would describe neither her first nor her second visit to the house in Prince's Road.”

• “All life could be likened to that episode, and all human beings, and the worst sorrows came from the failure to accept imperfection, knowing it for the alloy it was and yet, by some strange spiritual alchemy, seeing it as pure gold.”

• “Did it never occur to him, that she might crave for maturer society sometimes and need more relaxation than she got?”