"In passing, he looked at Popeye with a glance at once secret and alert, as though he were ready to laugh at a joke, waiting for the time to laugh."
(Chapter 1 p. 10)

"Benbow looked back. The ghost ruin of the house rose against the sky, above the massed and matted cedars, lights lit, desolate, and profound."
(Chapter 2, p. 18)

"There would always be three or four of them there when the band played Home, Sweet Home, lounging near the exit, their faces cold, bellicose, the little drawn with sleeplessness, watching the couples emerge in one aftermath of motion and noise."
(Chapter 4, p. 29)

"All at once he began to fight himself to sleep. It seemed to him that it was immediately, yet he was aware of time passing all the while, and that time was a factor in his need to wake; but otherwise he would be sorry."
(Chapter 4, p...