whatever the uses of a room, they are seriously interfered with if it be not preserved as a world by itself.

But marriage is one long sacrifice.... Chapter 21, Medora Manson speaking to Newland Archer

There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart you knew. I have kept her with me all this time, but now we are going to part, and I have brought her back to you - I am going to leave her here. When I go out presently she will not go with me. I shall like to think that she has stayed with you.

[I]t's safer to be fond of dangerous people.

Then stay with me a little longer,' Madame Olenska said in a low tone, just touching his knee with her plumed fan. It was the lightest touch, but it thrilled him like a caress.

I was just a screw or cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else.

He knelt by the bed and bent over her, draining their last moment to its lees; and in the silence there passed between them the word which made all clear.