Status Updates From Affinity

'She nodded to me once, and was let out by the Porter; and from the window of my cab I think I saw her again, then, stepping swiftly along an empty street—eager, I suppose, to snatch up the dark and slender ribbons of her ordinary life.'

'"Our flesh does not love: our flesh is the same, and longs to leap to itself."'

'"Oh, Selina, how could you think that? I have only kept away because, because I feared—" Feared my own passion, I might have said. But I didn't say it.'

'There is the Thames, as black as molasses. There are the lights of Albert Bridge, the trees of Battersea, the starless sky...'