If! If! If! There Were

It Was Hard To Believe There Was So Much Money In All This Bitter And Poverty-stricken World. So Much Money, So Very Much Money, And Someone Else Had It, Someone Who Took It Lightly And Didn't Need It.

It's A Curse - This Not Wanting To Look On Naked Realities. Until The War, Life Was Never More Real To Me Than A Shadow Show On A Curtain. And I Preferred It So. I Do Not Like The Outlines Of Things To Be Too Sharp. I Like Them Gently Blurred, A Little Hazy.

Ser Eyes Met His, Hers Naked With Pleading, His Remote As Mountain Lakes Under Gray Skies. She Saw In Them Defeat Of Her Wild Dream, Her Mad Desires.

The Way To Get A Man Interested And To Hold His Interest Was To Talk About Himself, And Then Gradually Lead The Conversation Around Yourself—and Keep It There.

Sir,"she Said,"you Are No Gentleman!" An Apt Observation,"he Answered Airily."and, You, Miss, Are No Lady.