She literally felt, in this first flush, that her only company must be the human race at large, present all round her, but inspiringly impersonal, and that her only field must be, then and there, the grey immensity of London.
"The Wings of the Dove, Volume 1 of 2"
Henry James
A man and a woman inspiringly fitted for each other sweep into the zone of mutual attraction at the opening of the story.
"From the Car Behind"
Eleanor M. Ingram
All the memories of the young years of culture and ease; all the daintiness of perfect dress and perfect manners; all the assurance that a vague, sweet dream was becoming real; all the sense of a struggle for a livelihood now ended; all the breaking of the grip of stern duty, and an unbending pride in a clear conscience, although their rewards had been inspiringly sweet-all these seemed to Jerry Swaim to lift her suddenly and completely into the real life from which these three busy, strange years had taken her.
"The Reclaimers"
Margaret Hill McCarter