alienship

Updated: May 10, 2025

She saw that the man looked absurdly out of place here, at his own uncle's. Against this background of gaiety and glitter, of music, powder and décolleté gowns, he really looked quite like a stray from some other world: only the more so in that he himself appeared quite unconscious of any alienship. Well, then, let him keep to his own world. That, in fact, was precisely what she desired of him....

Henry Sydnor Harrison - V. V.'s Eyes