"On the tides of Dublin or London they were hardly more than specks of froth but together they were the aristocratic Morans of Great Meadow, a completed world, Moran's daughters." Section 1, page 2

"He saw with bitter lucidity that he would marry Rose Brady now. As with so many things, no sooner had he taken the idea to himself than he began to resent it passionately."

Section 2, page 22

"They say he's one sort of person when he's out in the open among people - he can be very sweet - but that he's a different sort of person altogether behind the walls of his own house." Section 3, page 24

"Whatever you think, Daddy." She knew that whatever she said would be irrelevant anyway.' Section 3, page 27

"Daddy and Luke could never get on. They were too alike," and when Maggie began to cry Rose's mother saw that she had pressed...