The bottle of whiskey - the second one - was now in constant demand by all present, excepting Catherine, who 'felt just as good on nothing at all.

“Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to…”

“I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father …”

“Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.”

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