He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy.

“I slunkoff in the direction of the cocktail table—the only place inthe garden w…”

“Take off that darn fur coat!...Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the wind…”

“He found that the business of optimism was no mean task.”

“The growth of intimacy is like that. First one gives off his best picture, the …”