But Some Characters In Books Are Really

Truthfulness So Often Goes With Ruthlessness.

When I Read A Book, I Put In All The Imagination I Can, So That It Is Almost Like Writing The Book As Well As Reading It - Or Rather, It Is Like Living It. It Makes Reading So Much More Exciting, But I Don't Suppose Many People Try To Do It.

Am I Really Admitting That My Sister Is Determined To Marry A Man She Has Only Seen Once And Doesn't Much Like The Look Of? It Is Half Real And Half Pretense - And I Have An Idea That It Is A Game Most Girls Play When They Meet An Eligible Young Men. They Just...wonder.

There Was A Wonderful Atmosphere Of Gentle Age, A Smell Of Flowers And Beeswax, Sweet Yet Faintly Sour And Musty; A Smell That Makes You Feel Very Tender Towards The Past.

Perhaps What You Call Conventionality, I Call Decency.