Lactimel walked ever on the earth, but Ugolina never deserted the clouds.

Lactimel talked prose and professed to read it; Ugolina read poetry and professed to write it.

Lactimel was utilitarian.

_Cui bono_ ?--though probably in less classic phrase--was the question she asked as to everything.

Ugolina was transcendental, and denied that there could be real good in anything.