Quotes
- Viola discussing her planned marriage to Chisholm with the Vicar:
"How do your parents feel about this?"
"They don't know, yet. But they won't mind."
He said earnestly, "I wouldn't be too sure of that. You're awfully young, you know."
"I'm seventeen. Juliet was only thirteen."
"My dear child, look what happened to her."
- Viola kissing Johnnie Wrighton for the first time:
"I moved closer, and pressed my lips tenderly against his; at last we began to stroll back to the car, our arms round each other's waists, my head on his shoulder, his lips in my hair. The moon went with us, jigging over the treetops, leering a bit now, I thought. I wished I knew what was supposed to happen when we got back to the car. St Winifred's had been as reticent about this as about Economics."
- Viola discussing her future job in Berkshire with her parents:
"Now, Viola dear, no more arguments. You'll thank me for this when you've got three beautiful children and a husband you adore. Won't she, Harry?"
"Always provided she doesn't have them in that order," chuckled Father.
There are times, I must admit, when I actively dislike Father. He'll sell his own daughter down the river, just so that he can make a silly, and rather coarse, joke.
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