To be sure, anything I could say or think would be trivial compared with what is in _his_ mind." "But isn't it rather discourteous ?" Miriam observed impartially.
"Oh, I could never think of it in that way! An artist is privileged; he must defend his time and his sensibilities.

The common terms of society have no application to him.

Don't you feel that, Miriam ?" "I know so little of art and artists.

But such a claim seems to me very strange." Cecily laughed.
"This is one of a thousand things we will talk about.

Art is the grandest thing in the world; it means everything that is strong and beautiful--statues, pictures, poetry, music.