I disapproved of him from beginning to end. First he nodded politely, and then his face broke into that radiant and understanding smile as if we'd been in ecstatic cahoots on that fact all along.

“He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.”

“We walked through a high hallway into a bright rosy-colored space, fragilely bo…”

“I felt the basic insincerity of what she had said. It made me uneasy, as though…”

“They talked aimlessly back and forth, each speaking for the other.”