Nearest Book Meme

I'm not much on these memes, but I haven't posted in a bit and this one seemed like more fun than the normal Q&A ones...

From Critters and Spectacles:

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.

Possibly the two had been "indiscreet," although he did not think Gertrude capable of so drastic a moral lapse. The more he pressed her for an explanation, the more troubled and adamant she became. She wished she had never come to Chicago. It was a blighted, hellish place full of noise and dust and smoke and inhuman towers that blocked the sun, and she hated it - hated especially this gloomy building and the ceaseless clamor of construction.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson, which is about the planning of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago, and also a serial killer that was using the occasion to do his business. Not a book that I would have normally picked up, but I needed a new book to read and the lady friend lent this to me. I'm actually on page 110 of this book right now, so I'm glad that this didn't really give away anything drastic...