One never can tell." She smiled at her as an elder sister might smile.
"Katharine, you make one feel so horribly small!" Cassandra exclaimed.
"No, no, that's not what she means," Rodney interposed.

"I quite agree that women have an immense advantage over us there.

One misses a lot by attempting to know things thoroughly." "He knows Greek thoroughly," said Katharine.

"But then he also knows a good deal about painting, and a certain amount about music.

He's very cultivated--perhaps the most cultivated person I know." "And poetry," Cassandra added.
"Yes, I was forgetting his play," Katharine remarked, and turning her head as though she saw something that needed her attention in a far corner of the room, she left them.
For a moment they stood silent, after what seemed a deliberate introduction to each other, and Cassandra watched her crossing the room.
"Henry," she said next moment, "would say that a stage ought to be no bigger than this drawing-room.