need-and

Updated: May 8, 2025

There was something poetically appealing to this busy man in the quiet, sometimes sad-faced, fine- faced, competent woman, which gradually created in him a hungering sense of need-and he called one night. He afterwards said if he hadn't married Charlotte, he would have married her mother, who, to tell the truth, put what sparkle there was into the courtship.

Robert S. Carroll - Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness