'As she straightened the stacks of stationary in her desk (because there was nothing else to do), a familiar little panic gripped her: she couldn't marry him - she hardly knew him. Sometimes it occurred to her differently, that she couldn't marry him because she knew him too well, and either way it left her badly shaken, vulnerable to all the things Martha, her roommate, had said right from the beginning.'
Richard Yates, 'The Best of Everything' in Collected Stories, p.20.
