1. Mary Flynn, Ireland's photographed face, was famous and beautiful.
2. Mary smiled her famous, beautiful smile. She could not ask for a night. In all her eighteen years she had never known such happiness.
3. Mary wanted, more than else, to show the world that she was not just a beautiful face.
4. People were already saying that she was good, perhaps better, than Declan Knight - and he was Ireland's big film star.
5. "Declan doesn't like the public loving me more him", Mary thought.
6. She saw Declan in the mirror and knew he was the -looking man in the room, even though he was well over thirty.
7. She hates me because I'm younger and beautiful than she is, or ever has been.
8. You are almost the same age my mother, aren't you?
9. She took a piece of fruit, a large round green apple that was heav than it looked.
10.When she bit into the apple it tasted sweeter and than any fruit she had ever had in her life.