His hands touched the cool skin of her back, Abruptly they slipped inside her frock and closed about her waist. She leaned her head back against his shoulder and he kissed her until the room went dark before her eyes.

No man wants his wife to be a woman that other men don’t desire... But every man wants his wife to be a woman that other men don’t get.

At that, his smile faded and he kissed her. “Ross,” she said. “Dear Ross.” “I love you,” he said, “and am your servant. Demelza, look at me. If I’ve done wrong in the past, give me leave to make amends.” So he found that what he had half despised was not despicable, that what had been for him the satisfaction of an appetite, a pleasant but commonplace adventure in disappointment, owned wayward and elusive depths he had not known before, and carried the knowledge of beauty in its heart.

Why must you plague me with these questions in the middle of the night?

Refreshment is the remedy for all manner of embarrassments.

They are all sentimentalists at heart, the Poldarks, Verity thought, and she realized suddenly for the first time that it was a dangerous trait, far more dangerous than any cynicism.

Their lives had been the tragedy of one woman who couldn’t make up her mind.

Demelza said: ‘It seems to me no man is wise enough if the woman is not wise enough.’ Ross.

Men’s tongues in some things outrun women’s.

Tedn for we to be setting the world in step. Tedn sense, tedn natural, tedn right, tedn safe.