Zona Gale,
The Other Two
(1905)
“ When the shadows had quite fallen and the young lover was gone, and Enid had slipped away to her room to dream alone, Pelleas and I sat long over the fire beside the deserted tea-table. Nicola's rose, fading on my lace, gave out a heavenly fragrance, and the room was filled with little spirits and presences to which the perfume was akin—young hope, young prayer, young dreams. ”
Zona Gale,
The Other Two
(1905)
“ Pelleas and I sat on the red sofa and beamed at them, and the little fire tossed and leaped on the hearth, and the shadows gathered in the corners and fell upon us; but on Enid and her lover the fire-light rested lovingly. Oh, what a wonderful hour it was for our plain little drawing-room, doomed for so many weary years past to have been the home of talk about wars and rumors of wars, and relatives and their stupid doings, and even about the matches made by shadowy lovers whom it never might see! And lo, now the shabby room was called upon to harbor young love itself! ”
Zona Gale,
The Other Two
(1905)
“ Enid's father's sole objection to him was the youth of them both; the young lawyer, I elicited, was one year and five months older than Enid. “But it isn't as if he hadn't seen the world,” said Enid magnificently. “He has been graduated from college a year, and he has been abroad twice—once when he was nine, and then for two months last summer. And he has read everything, and he says he has—he calls it 'exploited' everything, and found that love is the only thing in the world. Oh, Aunt Ettarre,” said Enid with awe, “and then think of his loving me!” ”
