The Flowering Thorn
“His words, passed on to Lesley at a Chelsea bottle-party, had somehow been remembered (it was a trick his words often had) a great deal longer than the rest of the conversation: and during the first week in August they were constantly in Lesley’s mind.
‘Candles every one of them!’ thought Lesley, in her first bitterness. Mere flickering dips, unstable to the lightest breath! For she had forgotten, naturally enough, how fast things changed, how swiftly emotions developed and relationships change...d, when their change and their development were the chief recreation of largely unoccupied persons. In a couple of hours, at one of Elissa’s parties, one could be fallen in love with, fall in love oneself, lose interest, recover it again, and at the last be driven affectionately home by a person who two hours earlier had still been a perfect though interesting stranger. And if so much in two hours, how much more in two months! Elissa and Toby, when they came to the cottage, were already at their second and penultimate phase: from Lesley to Natasha had been more, for Bryan, than a single emotional stride.MoreLess
‘Candles every one of them!’ thought Lesley, in her first bitterness. Mere flickering dips, unstable to the lightest breath! For she had forgotten, naturally enough, how fast things changed, how swiftly emotions developed and relationships change...d, when their change and their development were the chief recreation of largely unoccupied persons. In a couple of hours, at one of Elissa’s parties, one could be fallen in love with, fall in love oneself, lose interest, recover it again, and at the last be driven affectionately home by a person who two hours earlier had still been a perfect though interesting stranger. And if so much in two hours, how much more in two months! Elissa and Toby, when they came to the cottage, were already at their second and penultimate phase: from Lesley to Natasha had been more, for Bryan, than a single emotional stride.MoreLess
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