" "Ah! But, you see, of all the objects there she was the only one that was alive," pointed out Blunt with the slightest possible flavour of sarcasm.
"Immensely so," affirmed Mills.

"Not because she was restless, indeed she hardly ever moved from that couch between the windows--you know." "No.

I don't know.

I've never been in there," announced Blunt with that flash of white teeth so strangely without any character of its own that it was merely disturbing.
"But she radiated life," continued Mills.

"She had plenty of it, and it had a quality.