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Quotation from Bliss and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
“Although Bertha Young was thirty she still had moments like this when she wanted to run instead of walk, to take dancing steps on and off the pavement, to bowl a hoop, to throw something up in the air and catch it again, or to stand still and laugh at—nothing—at nothing, simply.”
Bliss and Other Stories, Bliss (Project Gutenberg text)
The opening of the title story, catching Bertha's unaccountable happiness on the afternoon of her dinner party.
Citation: "Although Bertha Young was thirty she still had moments like this when she wanted to run instead of walk, to take dancing steps on and off the pavement, to bowl a hoop, to throw something up in the air and catch it again, or to stand still and laugh at—nothing—at nothing, simply." — Katherine Mansfield, Bliss and Other Stories, Bliss (Project Gutenberg text). (id bliss-and-other-stories-q4)
Portrait: Mansfield 1917 cropped, Ottoline Morrell (1873-1938), Public domain.
