At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others -- poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner -- young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.

He felt married to her, that was all.

Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.

It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.

interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end

As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat's shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty died away with the reassuring pressure of her hand.

There is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something that makes it worth while.