Here am I shedding one of my life-skins and all they will say is, 'Bernard is spending ten days in Rome'.

“Big Ben struck the half hour.How extraordinary it was, strange, yes, touching, …”

“Literature is no one’s private ground, literature is common ground; let us tres…”

“One might fancy that day, the London day, was just beginning. Like a woman who …”

“Things were not so simple after all. She could not understand even her own feel…”