He wondered idly whether she was a poor conversationalist because she got no attention or got no attention because she was a poor conversationalist.

“He had long been outside of the world of simple desires and their fulfillments,…”

“Doctor Dougall was wrong. It was tempermentally impossible for Amory to get the…”

“The logic of the suggestion fitted gradually into Abe’s pitch – he grew rather …”

“I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie.”