Why, we have learnt more of each other and each other's history in the last fortnight than we should have done if we had lived here together for twenty years under ordinary circumstances.

Except as to your little brother, I think you are the only one, Isobel, who has not talked much of home." "I suppose it is because my home was not a very happy one," Isobel said.
"I notice that all the talk is about happy scenes, nothing is ever said about disagreeables.

I suppose, my dear, it is just as I have heard, that starving people talk about the feasts they have eaten, so we talk of the pleasant times we have had.

It is the contrast that makes them dearer.

It is funny, too, if anything can be funny in these days, how different we are in the evening, when we have the men with us, to what we are when we are together alone in the day.