16/29 People have written about her.' 'Reams. Some day I'll read you what Pater says of her, unless you've read him already--by your camp fire.' For he had talked to her, as he had talked to Joan Gildea, about his readings and his dreamings under the stars in the Bush. I don't understand your up-to-date theories. I've always gone in for plain facts--standard reading--history--great thoughts of great minds--old books brought out in people's editions. I'm up a tree--downright bushed when you begin upon your queer ideas--all those new-fangled religions and notions--Theosophy, spooks--about the earth being alive, and thoughts making a sort of wireless telegraph system--I do believe in that, though--to a certain extent. |