39/79 There are beautiful, quite beautiful people who don't care for me. The thing that's important to one is the thing one sees one's self, and it's quite enough if _I_ see what can be made of that child. "It's too awfully pleasant your asking of me anything whatever!" "Well then, as I say, beautifully, grandly save her." "As you say, yes"-- he sympathetically inclined his head. "But without making me feel exactly what you mean by it." "Keep her," Nanda returned, "from becoming like the Duchess." "But she isn't a bit like the Duchess in any of her elements. She's a totally different thing." It was only for an instant, however, that this objection seemed to tell. |