Quote of the Hour: By the Fire

We would read together by the light of the fire, into which she often threw the letters that her husband sent her every day from the Front. Judging by their frequent expressions of anxiety I guesses that Marthe's letters to him were becoming less and less tender and less and less frequent. It was not without a certain disquiet that I watched those letters burn. For a second the fire became much brighter; the truth was I was afraid to see more clearly.

- Raymond Radiguet (A.M. Sheridan Smith translation), The Devil in the Flesh, p.42