"It's like Niagara, sweetheart ... one hears so much of it ... expects so much ... that it seems disappointing, the first actuality....
"Then afterward, it's more than any dream ever dreamed of what it would be!
"I want to work for you....
"I want to let you walk all over me with your little feet....
"I want you to kill me, sweetheart....
"I want to die for you....
"Hildreth, I love you!
"I'll tell Penton ... I'll tell everybody—'I love Hildreth! I love Hildreth!'"
"Johnnie, my own sweet darling, my own dear, pure-hearted, mad, young poet....