sober-eyed

Updated: June 1, 2025

Wistful she had seen him, and grave and sober-eyed, but never sad until now. "I should have helped you," she went on. "I would have, only I had come expecting . . . I thought to see " Two days before when she alighted from her father's car, her heart a tumult in her ears, she could have told him perhaps. She could not tell him now. "I am not used to such things," she finished weakly.

Larry Evans - Then I'll Come Back to You