sitting-together-and-waiting

Updated: August 14, 2026

Countess Betty had tears in her eyes. "I felt," she said later, "as if Billy had died and they had just paid a visit of condolence." Then came the afternoon hours with the steady brightness of the mid-summer day, with the quiet flaming of the bright colors in the garden-beds, the Sunday lack of happenings, the troubled sitting-together-and-waiting.

Various - The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19