'We looked at it together.' 'What did she say ?' I asked idly.
'Nothing very much.

That's just the point.

Another girl would have raved and gushed.' 'Oh, well, Cecily never does that,' I responded.

'Nevertheless she is a very ordinary human instrument.

I hope I shall have no temptation ten years hence to remind you that I warned you of her quality.' 'I wish, not in the least for my own profit, for I am well convinced already, but simply to win your cordiality and your approval--never did an unexceptional wooer receive such niggard encouragement!--I wish there were some sort of test for her quality.