"There are doubtless many good things you might do, if you had proper opportunity," he said.

"But you seem to be sailing with a current which leaves you little leisure for quiet benevolence.

You live in the whirl and hurry of a world into which a poor artist can hardly find it to his advantage to follow you." "In plain English, I am hopelessly frivolous.

You put it very generously." "I won't hesitate to say all my thought," said Rowland.

"For better or worse, you seem to me to belong, both by character and by circumstance, to what is called the world, the great world.