6.01.2005

Rose in Bloom

Chapter 1 [Coming Home]
“My faith, Alec-that's the sort of voice that wins a man's heart out of his breast!” exclaimed Uncle Mac, wiping his eyes after one of the plaintive ballads that never grow old.
“So it Would!” answered Dr. Alec delightedly.
“So it has,” added Archie to himself; and he was right, for just at that moment he fell in love with Phebe.

Chapter 9 [New Year's Calls]
“Why not? I intend to study love as well as medicine, for is one of the most mysterious and remarkable diseases that afflict mankind, and the best way to understand it is to have it. I may catch it some day, and then I should like to know how to treat and cure it”

Chapter 11 [Small Temptations]
I fell in love with his pocket handkerchiefs first, they were so enchanting I couldn't resist

Chapter 12 [At Kitty's Ball]
(...)and she much enjoyed the fact that she had been engaged three times before she was nineteen.