"I am not at all in love with the hero, but I very much approve of him."

"I am so fond of you that I could eat you."

"It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage."

"I have just been reading a novel which I think is very pretty, but which I do not like at all."

"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."