I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame.

He laughed a little, in an odd, nervous kind of way. "Because if I don't get going soon, the whole impetus may die--and if that happens, well, I really shall consider a long, restful plunge into insanity. Sometimes the abyss yawns very attractively.

Everything in the least connected with him has value for me; if someone even mentions his name it is like a little present to me-and I long to mention it myself

Perhaps it would really be rather dull to be married and settled for life. Liar! It would be heaven.

I was wandering around as usual, in my unpleasantly populated sub-conscious.

Oh, it is wonderful to wake up in the morning with things to look forward to!

How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!