Can't you understand that this girl is entirely different--" "Yes, I understand.

And that is what worries me." "It needn't.

It's precisely like taking any girl you know and like--" "Then let me know her--if you mean to decorate-public places with her." They looked at one another steadily.
"Louis," she said, "this pretty Valerie is not your sister's sort, or you wouldn't hesitate." "I--hesitate--yes, certainly I do.

It's absurd on the face of it.

She's too fine a nature to be patronised--too inexperienced in the things of your world--too ignorant of petty conventions and formalities--too free and fearless and confident and independent to appeal to the world you live in." "Isn't that a rather scornful indictment against my world, dear ?" "No.