lecturing-machine

Updated: May 23, 2025

I saw her now and then, always stouter, better dressed, more successful and more automatic: she had become a lecturing-machine. I went abroad for a year or two and when I came back she had disappeared. I asked several people about her, but life had closed over her. She had been last heard of as lecturing still lecturing but no one seemed to know when or where.

Edith Wharton - The Greater Inclination