There was a hint in the air that the earth was hurrying on toward other weather; the lush midsummer moment outside of time was already over.

“The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawne…”

“Then she was in the air, and Carlyle involuntarily held his breath. He had not …”

“It is not necessarily poverty of spirit that makes a woman surround herself wit…”

“At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, …”