She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality of marriage.

“Ea își dorea un fiu;ar fi trebuit să fie voinic și brunet;îi va spune Georges;i…”

“I refuse to consider Art a drain-pipe for passion, a kind of chamberpot, a slig…”

“But what was making her unhappy? Where was the extraordinary catastrophe that h…”

“I am an obscure and patient pearl-fisherman who dives into the deepest waters a…”