[The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic]@TWC D-Link bookThe Damnation of Theron Ware CHAPTER X 18/31
Don't mind anything I have said.
If it is to be, it will be.
You can't say more than that, can you ?" She looked into his face again, and her large eyes produced an impression of deep melancholy, which Theron found himself somehow impelled to share.
Things seemed all at once to have become very sad indeed. "It is one of my unhappy nights," she explained, in gloomy confidence. "I get them every once in a while--as if some vicious planet or other was crossing in front of my good star--and then I'm a caution to snakes. I shut myself up--that's the only thing to do--and have it out with myself I didn't know but the organ-music would calm me down, but it hasn't.
I shan't sleep a wink tonight, but just rage around from one room to another, piling all the cushions from the divans on to the floor, and then kicking them away again.
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