Sublime

sable

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them.

It had been a hard night but she had the satisfaction of feeling that, whatever Dick’s previous record was, they now possessed a moral superiority over him for as long as he proved of any use.

Perhaps because if everything stopped she might have to confront the truth about herself.

she’d been in such a hurry to succeed, which she’d believed required an ambitious husband and a house that she owned outright.

I tell myself she was a luxury, like fruit out of season, lucky to have but temporary.

It was a season of personal discovery.