Really, Mr.Ridge, I am so excited over your exploit that I can scarcely contain myself.

It seems so improbable, so immense, yet so simple that I can hardly understand it at all.

Why is it other people have not found this way to revolutionize life?
Running around the world to get married without the faintest excuse save an impulse--a whim.

How good, how glorious! It is better than a novel!" "I hope it is better than some novels." "It is better than any, because it is true." "I am afraid you are trying to lionize me," he jested.
"You have faced a British lion," she said slowly.
"My only regret is that he is old and clawless." "We are retracing our steps over dangerous ground," she said with a catch in her breath.
"You would have me to believe that I am a brave man, so I am determined to court the danger of your displeasure.

How did you happen to marry this old and clawless lion ?" She did not exhibit the faintest sign of surprise or discomfiture, certainly not of anger.