If this was love, love had been overrated.

“We were alone with the quiet day, and his little heart, dispossessed, had stopp…”

“It was the way the autumn day looked into the high windows as it waned; the way…”

“She had never yet encountered a personage so exotic, and she always felt more a…”

“Though I couldn't make out what she was talking of I was terribly frightened; t…”