They were simple, earnest people, those early Victorians, and had not yet learnt the trick of avoiding disturbing thoughts and sights.

“What did you do on Armistice Night? My beloved is mine and I am his!”

“That's all right! That's all right!' But for a minute or two it wasn't really. …”

“He was grotesque, really. But joy radiated from his homespuns when you walked b…”

“New York is large, glamorous, easy-going, kindly and incurious, but above all i…”