But it 's very likely.

You are, in the literal sense of the word, more civilized.

I dare say," added Rowland, "that Miss Garland would think so." "That 's not what she would call it; she would say I was corrupted." Rowland asked few questions about Miss Garland, but he always listened narrowly to his companion's voluntary observations.
"Are you very sure ?" he replied.
"Why, she 's a stern moralist, and she would infer from my appearance that I had become a cynical sybarite." Roderick had, in fact, a Venetian watch-chain round his neck and a magnificent Roman intaglio on the third finger of his left hand.
"Will you think I take a liberty," asked Rowland, "if I say you judge her superficially ?" "For heaven's sake," cried Roderick, laughing, "don't tell me she 's not a moralist! It was for that I fell in love with her, and with rigid virtue in her person." "She is a moralist, but not, as you imply, a narrow one.

That 's more than a difference in degree; it 's a difference in kind.

I don't know whether I ever mentioned it, but I admire her extremely.