"Everything, literally everything, in London, in the world she lives in, is in the air she breathes--so that the longer SHE'S in it the more she'll know." "The more she'll know, certainly," Mitchy acknowledged.

"But she isn't in it, you see, down here." "No.

Only she appears to have come down with such accumulations.

And she won't be here for ever," Vanderbank hastened to mention.

"Certainly not if you marry her." "But isn't that at the same time," Vanderbank asked, "just the difficulty ?" Mitchy looked vague.