The afternoon had made them tranquil for a while, as if to give them a deep memory for the long parting the next day promised.

“Benny McClenahan arrived always with four girls. They were never quite the same…”

“Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!”

“That's my middle-west - not the wheat or the prairies or the lost Swede towns b…”

“From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Bu…”