The room smelt close and unwholesome; the walls were dirt-discoloured; and the ceiling blackened. There was an old smoky bust over the mantel-shelf, and a dusty clock above the dock […]

And when he had me up there he would sap me again and I wouldn't remember anything that happened in between the two sappings.

Even though she didn't think of herself as a seductress, her effect on men showed she was one.

The huge, burly, pea-jacketed medical student—for such I saw at once he was—laid hold of me on the right tenderly enough, and walked me off between him and the policeman.