“…girls, women, are not interested in romance but only facts.”
William Faulkner book The Town
Gavin Stevens to Eula Varner Snopes in Ch. 20
The Town (1957)
“Young girls passed me with romance still in their eyes, and others, a little older, with the romance dead.”
— John Buchan, book A Lodge in the Wilderness
The scene is a society ball in London.
Source: A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906), Ch. V, p. 145.
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