However they dined very early, for the winter dusk fell betimes at this season ….

Thanks largely to Straus's navy-era media connections, names such as Stalin and Eisenhower had begun to grace the young list—albeit largely in photo-heavy as-told-tos and diary excerpts.

But to the chamber which lies most westwardly of the seven, there are now none of the maskers who venture; for the night is waning away […].

As Wax dissolves, as Ice begins to run,