...what is romance, but a mutual pact of delusion? When the pact ends , there's nothing left.
If everybody was so reverent of the institute of marriage, how did all the adultery get committed?
He had made a fairly unambiguous pass at her, as she was getting out of the cab. But event that had come to nothing. Sheba said that she had sensed something resentful about him, as if he begrudged her for having the power to attract him.