We pay for it, people who don't like us say, in our self-consciousness--" "But people who don't like us," Mitchy broke in, "don't matter.

Besides, how can we be properly conscious of each other-- ?" "That's it!"-- Vanderbank completed his idea: "without my finding myself for instance in you and Mrs.Brook?
We see ourselves reflected--we're conscious of the charming whole.

I thank you," he pursued after an instant to Mrs.Brook--"I thank you for your sincerity." It was a business sometimes really to hold her eyes, but they had, it must be said for her, their steady moments.

She exchanged with Vanderbank a somewhat remarkable look, then, with an art of her own, broke short off without appearing to drop him.

"The thing is, don't you think ?"--she appealed to Mitchy--"for us not to be so awfully clever as to make it believed that we can never be simple.