When waters engulf us we reach for a star. - Theodore Dreiser

A thought will color a world for us.

A clever companion — had she ever had one — would have warned her never to look a man in the eyes so steadily.

In many cases where one is content to lead a secluded life it is not necessary to say much of one's past, but as a rule something must be said. People have the habit of inquiring — if they are no more than butchers and bakers. By degrees one must account for this and that fact, and it was so here. .