Wine gave a sort of gallantry to their own failure.

Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

He felt married to her, that was all.

If you try to create a type, you may end with nothing. If you do a good job of creating an individual, you may succeed at creating a type.

She was a dark, unenduring little flower - yet he thought he detected in her some quality of spiritual reticence, of strength drawn from her passive acceptance of all things. In this he was mistaken.

I noticed that she wore her evening dress, all her dresses, like sports clothes-there was a jauntiness about her movements as if she had first learned to walk upon a golf course on clean, crisp, mornings.

Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.