And for this reason, among others: you strike me as very capable of enjoying, if the chance were given you, and yet at the same time as incapable of wrong-doing." "I am sure," said Gertrude, "that you are very wrong in telling a person that she is incapable of that.

We are never nearer to evil than when we believe that." "You are handsomer than ever," observed Felix, irrelevantly.
Gertrude had got used to hearing him say this.

There was not so much excitement in it as at first.

"What ought one to do ?" she continued.

"To give parties, to go to the theatre, to read novels, to keep late hours ?" "I don't think it 's what one does or one does n't do that promotes enjoyment," her companion answered.