love-hungering

Updated: June 22, 2025

Only I wish you would look at me like you looked at Miss de Vere just now," he said, trying to look dejected. She laughed. Those little affectionate expressions always pleased her, for she wondered sometimes if Clarence could be a cold and unresponsive husband. He was not a very ardent lover, and grey-eyed, intellectual Beth Woodburn had a love-hungering heart, though few people knew it.

Maud Petitt - Beth Woodburn