![]() ![]() I do not sigh and yearn for extravagant displays of passion, for the grand affair, the world well lost for love. 'I have been listening to that particular accusation for most of my life. 'You are a romantic, Edith,' repeated Mr Neville, with a smile. My idea of absolute happiness is to sit in a hot garden all day, reading or writing, utterly safe in the knowledge that the person I love will come home to me in the evening. ![]() I cannot think or act or speak or write or even dream with any kind of energy in the absence of love. I mean that I cannot live well without it. I mean something far more serious than that. ![]() Oh, I do not mean that I go into a decline, develop odd symptoms, become a caricature. “You are wrong if you think you cannot live without love, Edith.' ![]() An evening walk, arm in arm, in fine weather. No, what I crave is the simplicity of routine. I know all that, and know that it leaves you lonely. I do not mean that I go into a decline, develop odd symptons, became a caricature. You are wrong if you think you cannot live without love. “A woman owes it to herself to have pretty things. ![]()
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