She just had a very quiet way of speaking, and it really engaged you because she was so soft-spoken; you had to listen carefully. There was a kind of intimacy that you immediately had.

He was a very soft-spoken, quiet guy who thought deeply. He was a very kind colleague who didn't try to lord it over other people. It was a kind of respect you don't run into a lot in academia.

No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage, which they will climb incontinent, or else be incontinent before marriage.

My instinct is to keep my engagement ring - After all, I wouldn't like to see it on the finger of a cheeky girl.

I was very depressed after breaking off my engagement with Johnny ten years ago. I was embarrassingly dramatic at the time, but you have to remember I was only 19 years old.

engaged in planned maneuvers.