Sax Rohmer,
Grey Face — Chapter 34
(1924)
“ To-night, as on that distant night, every lighted car seemed to contain a pair of happy lovers, pleasure bound. It was a joyous parade of piquant, flower-like women nestling amid furry theatre cloaks; of well-groomed, self-satisfied men ”
Sax Rohmer,
Grey Face — Chapter 34
(1924)
“ Lots of men must have envied you." "There are even more who would envy me now," he replied. Jasmine tilted her head so that it rested on his shoulder. She sighed contentedly. "When you do pay compliments," she said, "you manage it very prettily." There was silence between them for a while. Sitting unnecessarily close together in the big car, in that sort of waking dream which is a communion of which only lovers may partake, Carey was discovering that love is an alchemist who can transmute old sorrows into new joys. ”
Sax Rohmer,
Grey Face — Chapter 34
(1924)
“ Jasmine stared for a while into the foyer of the Adelphi Theatre, an object of interest to many passers-by, but herself oblivious of their existence; and Carey regarded a red-faced and irascible military gentleman, detained in a taxicab on the off-side of the car, in whom this traffic delay threatened to induce apoplexy. "Was she sweet to you?" Jasmine asked softly. "Don't speak of her like that," said Carey. "She means absolutely nothing to me. But, on the other hand, she is a dangerous woman. ”
