And--and it's fascinating to know you've power over people.

Yes, that is fascinating...
Oh why, oh why doesn't "he" come soon?
If I go on living here, thought Beryl, anything may happen to me.
"But how do you know he is coming at all ?" mocked a small voice within her.
But Beryl dismissed it.

She couldn't be left.

Other people, perhaps, but not she.

It wasn't possible to think that Beryl Fairfield never married, that lovely fascinating girl.
"Do you remember Beryl Fairfield ?" "Remember her! As if I could forget her! It was one summer at the Bay that I saw her.