18/23 It's your one chance of keeping sane. 'You seem to have studied the "most noble of ladies" latterly rather like a barrister with a brief for the defendant--plaintiff, if you like!' 'As to that, I'll help you to an insight of a particular weakness of mine,' said Gower. 'I require to have persons of even the highest value presented to me on a stage, or else I don't grasp them at all--they 're simply pictures. I saw the lady; admired, esteemed, sufficiently, I supposed, until her image appeared to me in the feelings of another. |