"I take the higher view." "I beg your pardon," said Nap, in the tone of one refusing a discussion.
She turned to him impulsively.

"Surely you do too!" she said, and there was even a note of pleading in her voice.
Nap's brows met suddenly.

He turned his eyes away.

"I am nothing but an animal," he told her rather brutally.

"There is nothing spiritual about me.