I Capture the Castle

by Dodie Smith

You lose yourself in something beyond yourself and it’s a lovely rest.”

I wanted so terribly to be good to him.

everything was so luxurious—and so meaningless, so lifeless.

“Well, come back to the castle and take a rest,”

How mixed people are—how mixed and nice!

She is a good-looking girl. Enormous feet, though.

Sometimes the abyss yawns very attractively.

I was so happy that I wanted to be kind to everyone in the world.

you can’t really judge by kisses

;NO. I am jeering again. I am DENSE.

Perhaps it would really be rather dull to be married and settled for life. Liar! It would be heaven.