Thread:Nockt/@comment-6301921-20141229033121/@comment-27689364-20141229040256

Ah, my bad. I thought you all adhered fully to the British English form of punctuation, where only full quotes include the punctuation and your second example would read as follows: Vera confessed that she felt "as beautiful as a young maiden ", even though she was in her seventies.

So, you guys have a British-English hybrid form of punctuation in effect.