"Ah, Boy, I must make you understand! How could I do otherwise, though, indeed, it was putting away the highest good life will ever hold for me?
Deryck, you know Garth well enough to realise how dependent he is on beauty; he must be surrounded by it, perpetually.

Before this unaccountable need of each other came to us he had talked to me quite freely on this point, saying of a plain person whose character and gifts he greatly admired, and whose face he grew to like in consequence: 'But of course it was not the sort of face one would have wanted to live with, or to have day after day opposite to one at table; but then one was not called to that sort of discipline, which would be martyrdom to me.' Oh, Deryck! Could I have tied Garth to my plain face?
Could I have let myself become a daily, hourly discipline to that radiant, beauty-loving nature?
I know they say, 'Love is blind.' But that is before Love has entered into his kingdom.

Love desirous, sees only that, in the one beloved, which has awakened the desire.

But Love content, regains full vision, and, as time goes on, those powers of vision increase and become, by means of daily, hourly, use,--microscopic and telescopic.

Wedded love is not blind.