Whether he acted rightly or not, I have never been sure. It was the future of a child that was at stake. A child, he felt, ought to be given the benefit of a doubt.

You are not the happy, unthinking child you have always appeared to be, accepting everything at its face value. You are not just one of the women of the household. You are Renisenb who wants to think for herself, who wonders about other people.

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

Very few of us are what we seem.

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.