83 Quotes About The-incurable-matchmaker

It always was well nigh impossible to get any sense out of you, Jack," she said. "Have you ever said anything to anyone that you really meant?

He had never even put words to these deepest feelings in his own mind . . . He had never told anyone else. Or even himself. Yet he had told Diana Ingram.

He could not do it. It was as simple as that. He had known it there at the castle as he held her in his arms, his head bent back against the stone pillar, his body aching and aching for her.He could not do it. She had done nothing to deserve him and the kind of destruction he could bring into her life.

Ah," Lord Kenwood said, with that gleam in his eye that always made Diana feel indignant—except when she had started to like it for a few mad days.

She did not want to dance with him. But it was one thing not to want to do so and quite another not to be given a chance to do so. Lord Crensford did not come near her during the first three sets, and after that it was perfectly clear to her that he had no intention of doing so. She was not to have the satisfaction of refusing him.

But it was not so much the fresh air that she needed as a few minutes of solitude, a few minutes in which to collect herself. She stood to the side of one open doorway, half hidden by the heavy velvet drapery, and felt a raw ache at the back of her throat. She wanted to cry, she realized. For all the great popularity and success the evening was bringing her she felt a terrible loneliness.

Women like to be pursued. Women like occasionally to be caught without their chaperones. Now go to her.

The heavens are about to open. I think you must prepare for a wicked night of sin with me, Mrs. Ingram. We seem to have a habit of getting ourselves into such situations during rain storms, do we not?

What was she to do? There seemed to be precious little she could do. She turned back to the ballroom in some dread.