"What is happiness? The substantiality of this woman. The compound she was. The wit, the gameness, the shrewdness, the fatty tissue, the old indulgence in high-flown words, that laugh marked with life, her responsibility to everything, not excluding her carnality - there was stature in this woman. Mockery. Play. The talent and taste for the clandestine, the knowledge that everything subterranean beats everything terranean by a mile, a certain physical poise, the poise that is the purest expression of her sexual freedom. And the conspirational understanding with which she spoke, her terror of the clock running down..."