Midnight Lace Author:MacKinlay Kantor How deeply would he pay for love? — She stood before him---a female thing, a woman in his house. They were alone---they were together---he needed her now, he needed her wildly. And oh, the lace! The blue-black treasure which had first striken his eyes---this very hair on whose wild beauty it had pressed had been pinned...She would wear the hat... more » again. He would crumple her in his arms when again she had fastened it to her, he would love her thus...he would take the dim, dark web as being part of her, and part of the mystery she shed, and he would love and crush it...
Every man craved Dolly's succulent femininity, but could any man really afford it?« less