"No Powder, no matter how thick or white..."

"The heavy hangings on the wall..."

"all the paraphernalia of the everyday world from which I..."

"Into marriage..."

"What shall I do now, how shall I pass the long..."

"an unknown..."

"My first thought, when I saw the ring..."

"And I would have to be..."

"My husband had..."

I was afraid, not so much of him..."

" this lovely prison of which I was..."

The unguessable country..."

"His wedding gift..."

"I had been tricked..."

"The dead waste of time..."

"I clung to him as though..."

"In the Turret Suite he had given me for my very own..."

"I felt a tension in the pit of my stomach..."

"When he put the gold band on my finger..."

"If my music had first ensnared him..."

"the blood pounded in my ears..."