Longing Hearts Could Only Stand So Much

She Could Not Ignore Life. She Had To Live It And It Was Too Brutal, Too Hostile, For Her Even To Try To Gloss Over Its Harshness With A Smile

How Wonderful To Know Someone Who Was Bad And Dishonorable And A Cheat And A Liar, When All The World Was Filled With People Who Would Not Lie To Save Their Souls And Who Would Rather Starve Than Do A Dishonorable Deed!

You Have Eternity In Which To Explain And Only One Night To Be A Martyr In The Amphitheater Get Out, Darling, And Let Me See The Lions Eat You.

Like Most Girls, Her Imagination Carried Her Just As Far As The Altar And No Further.

Oh, Why Was He So Handsomely Blond, So Courteously Aloof, So Maddeningly Boring With His Talk About Europe And Books And Music And Poetry And Things That Interested Her Not At All - And Yet So Desirable?