The Lady of the Basement Flat Quotes

“At three o'clock this afternoon Evelyn Wastneys died. I am Evelyn Wastneys, and I died, standing at the door of an old country home in Ireland...”
― Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey , The Lady of the Basement Flat

“Oh, how many mysteries there are around us! How wonderful, how absorbingly interesting it will be, when the time comes, to hear the explanation of all that seems so tangled to our present understanding!”
― Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey, The Lady of the Basement Flat

“You are the first woman—the only woman. Before you came I was content. Since we met, I have been in torment. You woke me up. When a man is roused from a trance it gives him pain. You brought pain to me—sleeplessness, discontent, a craving that grew and grew. I wished we had never met—you had upset my life; I believed that I hated you for it.”
― Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey, The Lady of the Basement Flat