He laid aside his book and considered.
"I should call yours a singularly untidy mind," he observed.

"Feelings?
Aren't they just what we do allow for?
We put love up there, and all the rest somewhere down below." With his left hand he indicated the top of a pyramid, and with his right the base.
"But you didn't get out of bed to tell me that," he added severely.
"I got out of bed," said Hewet vaguely, "merely to talk I suppose." "Meanwhile I shall undress," said Hirst.

When naked of all but his shirt, and bent over the basin, Mr.Hirst no longer impressed one with the majesty of his intellect, but with the pathos of his young yet ugly body, for he stooped, and he was so thin that there were dark lines between the different bones of his neck and shoulders.
"Women interest me," said Hewet, who, sitting on the bed with his chin resting on his knees, paid no attention to the undressing of Mr.Hirst.
"They're so stupid," said Hirst.

"You're sitting on my pyjamas." "I suppose they _are_ stupid ?" Hewet wondered.
"There can't be two opinions about that, I imagine," said Hirst, hopping briskly across the room, "unless you're in love--that fat woman Warrington ?" he enquired.
"Not one fat woman--all fat women," Hewet sighed.
"The women I saw to-night were not fat," said Hirst, who was taking advantage of Hewet's company to cut his toe-nails.
"Describe them," said Hewet.
"You know I can't describe things!" said Hirst.

"They were much like other women, I should think.