"I was Delighted to meet you at my Warehouse when you applied for the Post of governess, but your Family Connexion and own Demeanor convinced me that I could Never think of You as an Employee of mine. It was that Realization which prompted me to draw the interview to a Close. I had an idea Then which I now Communicate with you: Namely that I wish I might think of you as a Wife." Josiah's letter to Frances, Chap. 1, p. 3

"Mehuru set himself the task of fighting for his share and then giving half of it to the neighbor on his right. He did it as an exercise, a discipline, not an act of love. He thought he would never love anyone, ever again." Chap. 3, p. 50

"You have been hidden from the real things, the dirty thing, sister. But now you are the wife of a man...