Quotes from Betty Neels

She thanked him just as

Miss Timms must have been out of her mind," he observed bitterly. "She said that you were utterly trustworthy and sensible." "Well, I hope I am when it comes to being a nurse. But today I'm just me, doing what I want to do." She took his hand gently from her arm. "Goodbye, Mr Werdmer ter Sane.

us, not with her,' she observed.

My dear, marriage isn't all a matter of falling in love and living happily ever after. Liking is as important as loving in its way; feeling comfortable with each other is important too—and friendship. Add these things up and you have the kind of love which makes a happy marriage.

I would be delighted to see the pair of you married, but Sophie's quite right to think it over; love is for a lifetime.

March was doing exactly as it should; it had come in like a lamb, now it was going out like a lion. ~Only Betty Neels~

have had the best intentions?' Leonora gave him a cold look. 'He said one of the reasons for marrying me

she spun round to face him, suddenly alight with happiness—a lovely feeling, she thought bemusedly, like going out of doors very early on a summer morning or going home after a hard week's work and opening the kitchen door and seeing her mother—a lovely complete feeling in which content and delight and joy were nicely mixed.

One falls in and out of love, but when one loves that is an entirely different matter, for that lasts through life and beyond, and is a rare thing.