Longing Hearts Could Only Stand So Much

Oh, Why Was He So Handsomely Blond, So Courteously Aloof, So Maddeningly Boring With His Talk About Europe And Books And Music And Poetry And Things That Interested Her Not At All - And Yet So Desirable?

Hunger Gnawed At Her Empty Stomach Again And She Said Aloud: 'as God Is My Witness, And God Is My Witness, The Yankees Aren't Going To Lick Me. I'm Going To Live Through This, And When It's Over, I'm Never Going To Be Hungry Again. No, Nor Any Of My Folks. If I Have To Steal Or Kill - As God Is My Witness, I'm Never Going To Be Hungry Again.

Now He Saw That She Understood Entirely Too Well And He Felt The Usual Masculine Indignation At The Duplicity Of Women. Added To It Was The Usual Masculine Disillusionment In Discovering That A Woman Has A Brain.

They Were Always Like Two People Talking To Each Other In Different Languages. But She Loved Him So Much, When He Withdrew As He Had Now Done, It Was Like The Warm Sun Going Down And Leaving Her In Chilly Twilight Dews.

I Only Know That I Love You. That's Your Misfortune.