"On one of those sunny spring mornings in Lima when the geraniums are an even brighter red, the roses more fragrant, and the bougainvilleas curlier as they awaken..."
p. 18

"All that gossip turned out to be true. Senator Selcedo can't get it up! If I were certain he'd stay that way, I'd marry him for his dough...But what if I cured him? Can't you just see that old gaffer trying to make up for lost time with me?"
p. 47

"He was a man in the prime of his life, his fifties...broad forehead, aquiline nose, penetrating gaze, the very soul of rectitude and goodness."
p. 60

"The difference in age between us wasn't all that tremendous...'No all that tremendous, no' she answered, 'But almost—I'm very nearly old enough for you to be my son.'"
p. 88

"The love affair of a baby and an old...