...unreserved as itself.' Here is perhaps the central moment in the book (it occurs almost exactly halfway): Their eyes met, and he again felt himself in the presence...chill of a complication for which he had not allowed. That chill settles on the book: it is at this point that things begin to darken. Rose shows the darkest...

...had been so deep, so exquisite. It represented something that no lapse could long quench—something that gave out the measureless white ray of a light...that made everything for the moment look hard and ugly—made him also feel the chill of a complication for which he had not allowed. He had had plenty...