Chapter 5

Cards (9)

  • Your place looks like the World’s Fair (CH5)
  • in a white flannel suit, silver shirt and gold-couriered tie (CH5)
  • he was pale, and there were dark signs of sleeplessness beneath his eyes (CH5)
  • One of the papers said they thought the rain would stop about four (CH5)
  • pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets (CH5)
  • a defunct mantelpiece clock (CH5)
  • terrible, terrible mistake (CH5)
  • He stared around at his obsessions in a dazed way as though her actual astounding presence none of it was any longer real (CH5)
  • No around of fire or freshness can challenge what a man can store up in his ghostly heart (CH5)