“Her singing always cheered him up. Life seemed so much brighter when she stopped.”

“How is it that everyone on this train has so much alcohol?"
"We always head to Canada at the beginning of the season," she says taking her seat again. "Their laws are much more civilized. Cheers.”

“When the bird of the heart begins to sing, too often will reason stop up her ears.”

“She wondered if literature might lose some of its interest when she reached an age or state of mind where her life was set on such a sure course that the things she read might stop seeming so powerfully like alternate directions for her being.”

“When Life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.”

“She wanted him to notice her so much.”

“But that was only the beginning of her mortification. Harold had proved her wrong. He had seen that she was a shifty, shallow hypocrite. She had not dared to be alone with him since her exposure. She had never looked at him and had hardly spoken. He seemed cheerful, but what was he thinking? He would never forgive her.”

“She looked away. Her attitude seemed to suggest that she had finished with him, and would be obliged if somebody would come and sweep him up.”

“It seemed that she had not so much misjudged the woman as assigned her to completely the wrong species.”

“She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.”