katy-bereft

Updated: May 3, 2025

Katy was gone. John Perkins was not accustomed to analyzing his emotions. But as he sat in his Katy-bereft 10x12 parlor he hit unerringly upon the keynote of his discomfort. He knew now that Katy was necessary to his happiness. His feeling for her, lulled into unconsciousness by the dull round of domesticity, had been sharply stirred by the loss of her presence.

O. Henry - The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million