There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.

Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.

A wedding is one of the most lamentable spectacles on earth.

I should never deem a man of ordinary caliber worthy of my devotion.

She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what.

The delicious breath of rain was in the air.

Why?" asked her companion. "Why do you love him when you ought not to?" Edna, with a motion or two, dragged herself on her knees before Mademoiselle Reisz, who took the glowing face between her two hands. "Why? Because his hair is brown and grows away from his temples; because he opens and shuts his eyes, and his nose is a little out of drawing; because he has two lips and a square chin, and a little finger which he can't straighten from having played baseball too energetically in his youth. Because - " "Because you do, in short," laughed Mademoiselle.