"I don't understand your wife." "You're of the same race, at any rate--more or less; of the same general tradition and education, of the same moral paste.

There are things you have in common with them.

But I, on my side, as I've gone on trying to see if I haven't some of these things too--I, on my side, have more and more failed.

There seem at last to be none worth mentioning.

I can't help seeing it--I'm decidedly too different." "Yet you're not"-- Charlotte made the important point--"too different from ME." "I don't know--as we're not married.