It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.

“He’s quite as nervously broken down as I am, but it manifests itself in differe…”

“Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and …”

“This was a valley of ashes – a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into …”

“I noticed that she wore her evening dress, all her dresses, like sports clothes…”