"... 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.’"

"A week later they shipped her out. She was your age. She was twenty-four."

"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.’"

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