One night I did hear a material car there, and saw its lights stop at his front steps. But I didn't investigate. Probably it was some final guest who had been away at the ends of the earth and didn't know that the party was over.

“Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.”

“Believe me, I may be a bit blasé, but I can still get any man I want.”

“Then a strange thing happened. She turned to him and smiled, and as he saw her …”

“Fifteen years of yes's had beaten Mrs. Gilbert. Fifteen further years of that i…”