She seemed to him so much older, so much more pliant to social uses than when he had seen her at home, that he had a desire to draw from her some categorical account of her occupation and thoughts.

He told her his desire and what suggested it.

"It appears, then," she said, "that, after all, one can grow at home!" "Unquestionably, if one has a motive.

Your growth, then, was unconscious?
You did not watch yourself and water your roots ?" She paid no heed to his question.

"I am willing to grant," she said, "that Europe is more delightful than I supposed; and I don't think that, mentally, I had been stingy.