Well always leave a party at its height when you're most enjoying it.
Read more Lady Edith de Haviland QuotesFrom: Crooked House
It is a hothouse of suppressed passion. This is what happens when the person you love the most in the world who you would give your life for is actually the same person that you hate the most.
They do share one or two traits. Vanity. A distorted morality. A lack of empathy. And murderers tend to feel that they are above the rules and laws that govern ordinary mortals.
A little man, Mr. Hayward, who cast a large shadow. A very large and rather crooked shadow.