"You wanted to be Mrs. and Mrs. you shall be with a vengeance as far as I am concerned." (Chapter 1, page 1)

"The Good Book says that favour is deceitful and beauty is vain, but I should not have minded finding that out for myself, if it had been so ordained. I have no doubt we will all be beautiful when we are angles, but what good will it do us then?" (Chapter 1, page 3)

"Once, looking from the attic windows of Ingleside, through the mist and aftermath of a summer thunderstorm, they had seen the beloved spot arched by a glorious rainbow, one end of which seemed to dip straight down to where a corner of the pond ran up into the lower end of the valley." (Chapter 3, page 14)

"The Rev. John Meredith walked the floor with rapt face and shining eyes, thinking out his message of the morrow...