"Though Rachel finds him a bore." "He's a bore when he talks about currents," said Rachel.

Her eyes were full of sleep, but Mrs.Dalloway still seemed to her wonderful.
"I've never met a bore yet!" said Clarissa.
"And I should say the world was full of them!" exclaimed Helen.

But her beauty, which was radiant in the morning light, took the contrariness from her words.
"I agree that it's the worst one can possibly say of any one," said Clarissa.

"How much rather one would be a murderer than a bore!" she added, with her usual air of saying something profound.

"One can fancy liking a murderer.