From Edith Wharton, American novelist, to W Morton Fullerton, American journalist - June 8, 1908

"There would have been the making of an accomplished flirt in me, because my lucidity shows me each move of the game - but that, in the same instant, a reaction of contempt makes me sweep all the counters off the board and cry out: - "Take them all - I don't want to win - I want to lose everything to you!"