"Bart, the hairdresser, sassed the customers when he wasnt clowning or reciting brash tales about his private life. Th…"

"Mrs. H., the seamstress, and her mysterious husband whom nobody had everseen, it was assumed that he was bedridden, s…"

"No one would suppose that they were mother and daughter and few really knew. Sometimes her mother introduced her as h…"

"Every day he expected to find in his mail an anonymous letter, beginning "It may interest you to know that your wife...""

"Throughout the afternoon, the woman's voice had been seldom heard. With her pale clean hands curved around the rolled…"

""Why don't you marry me?" "Because I don't want to. I don't want to marry any one." She felt stifled and ill, and she…"

"...she stayed behind in the vestibule of the train, leaning against the wall in an effort to knit together her nerves…"

"He warned himself: the one luxury you can't afford is to lose your temper, understand? (Chapter Ten, p169)"

"he thought: this is it. I heard about it; read about it; now I am seeing it. For us, perhaps, there may be only the t…"

"The two men, leaning against the billboard in the vacant corner lot, had not spoken for the past fifteen minutes. Vic…"