The Wings of the Dove by Henry James

BOOK FIRST

Chapter 1

"She waited, Kate Croy, for her father to come in, but he kept her

unconscionably, and there were moments at which she showed herself,

in the glass over the mantel, a face positively pale with the irritation

that had brought her to the point of going away without sight of him.

It was at this point, however, that she remained; changing her place,

moving from the shabby sofa to the armchair upholstered in a glazed

cloth that gave at once_she had tried it_the sense of the slippery

and of the sticky."