Mr.Arthur seems to have nothing in common with him; but there is in him that rush and energy of life, from which, surely, art and poetry spring, when the time is ripe.
"Don't of course imagine anything absurd! He is just a young Scotch engineer, who seems to have made some money as people do make money here--quickly and honestly--and is shortly going into Parliament.

They say that he is sure to be a great man.

To us--to Philip and me, he has been extremely kind.

I only meant that he seems to be in place here--or anywhere, indeed, where the world is moving; while Mr.Arthur, in Canada, is a walking anachronism.

He is out of perspective; he doesn't fit.
"You will say, that if I married him, it would not be to live in Canada, and once at home again, the old estimates and 'values' would reassert themselves.