The advantage is that, detached from modern conditions, one can make them more intense and more abstract then people who live as we do." Rachel had listened to all this with attention, but with a certain amount of bewilderment.

They both sat thinking their own thoughts.
"I'm not like Hirst," said Hewet, after a pause; he spoke meditatively; "I don't see circles of chalk between people's feet.

I sometimes wish I did.

It seems to me so tremendously complicated and confused.

One can't come to any decision at all; one's less and less capable of making judgments.