Quotation from: The Little Lady of the Big House

Written by: Jack London

But as he continued to gaze, abruptly there leaped before his eyes the
vision of her in the moonlight, clinging to Graham and drawing his
lips down to hers.

Dick got up quickly, with a shake of head to shake the vision from his
eyes.

By half past nine his correspondence was finished and his desk cleaned
save for certain data to be used in his talks with his Shorthorn and
Shire managers. He was over at the window and waving a smiling
farewell to Lute and Ernestine in the limousine, as Mendenhall
entered. And to him, and to Manson next, Dick managed, in casual talk,
to impress much of his bigger breeding plans.