The Last Day of the Army Pay

He came back from France when Tom and Daisy were still on their wedding trip. He stayed there a week, walking the streets where their footsteps had clicked together through the November night. Just as Daisy's house had always seen to him more mysterious and gay than other houses, so his idea of Louisville was pervaded with melancholy beauty. In any case, he said, it was just personal. What could you make of that, except to suspect some intensity in his conception of the affair that couldn't be measured?