I can only say this, though--that it has always weighed on my mind as a great and sore deprivation, this being shut out from knowing what others mean when they talk and write about art.

Perhaps that may help you to get at what you are after.

If I ever went to New York, I feel that one of the first things I should do would be to see all the picture galleries; is that what you meant?
And--would you mind telling me--why you-- ?" "Why I asked you ?" Celia supplied his halting question.

"No, I DON'T mind.

I have a reason for wanting to know--to satisfy myself whether I had guessed rightly or not--about the kind of man you are.