One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash.

The great thing in these cases is to keep an absolutely open mind. Most crimes, you see, are so absurdly simple.

The things she said seemed to have very little relation to the last thing she had said a minute before. She was the sort of person, Tommy thought, who might know a great deal more than she chose to reveal.

I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty---to one's friends and one's family and one's caste.

Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.