I wouldn't ask too much of her," I ventured. "You can't repeat the past."

"Can't repeat the past? he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!

“I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all--Tom and Gatsby, Da…”

“I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,is that the…”

“There was a ripe mystery about it, a hint of bedrooms upstairs more beautiful a…”

“How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always th…”