"... only twenty-four, without friends in England, who had left Italy for his sake, a piece of bone..."

"In spite of the experiences she must have had, and of the twenty-four years to which she owned, she struck him as intrinsically young..."

"Rooms, she knew, became more like worlds than rooms at the age of twenty-four..."

"Wilhelmina’s sensibility was that of an only child who for twenty-four years has been adored, tended, and nagged by her parents..."

"I have been single and merry for four-and-twenty years and more..."

"‘That’s my trouble at parties,’ says Miss Callendar, ‘I get into fights.’"

"It used to do Keith’s heart good watching little Pepsi Hoolihan as she flitted like a butterfly from pub to pub along the Portobello Road..."

"She was twenty-four and, as she said: ‘We Spanish women are horrors at thirty.’"

"...she was lovelier now at twenty-four than she had been at eighteen..."

"Being so young, twenty-three or four, I suffered, like so many ‘emancipated’ girls, from a terror of being trapped and tamed by domesticity. "