after-the-fact

Updated: May 15, 2025

Then, in the final moment of this after-the-fact rehearsal, as her face almost touched the glass, she forgot how and what she had looked to Corliss; she forgot him; she forgot him utterly: she leaped to her feet and kissed the mirrored lips with a sort of passion. "You darling!" she cried. Cora's christening had been unimaginative, for the name means only, "maiden."

Booth Tarkington - The Flirt