HELEN GIVINGS - CHARACTER QUOTES

hard work, her father had always said, is the

best medicine yet devised for the ills of man and woman

a long delayed

emergence into womanhood

sometimes, chatting with Howard she

could feel the stirrings of desire

knuckled with bunions, curling to hide their corneous toenails

she stuffed them quickly into her bright norwegian slipper socks

take him into her amrs and

press his dear old head to her breast

but fron there on Howard Givings heard only a welcome, thunderous sea of silence

He had turned off his hearing aid