I have lived with realities; I know actual conditions--and you know only what you have been told or imagined.

Oh, I admit that you saw an edge of reality in the trenches; but, after all, life in the trenches was as abnormal as life in the movies.

Each represents an extreme.

What you know of average human life, of hunger and pain and labour, could be learned in an academy for young ladies.

Yet you imagine that it is experience! You have lived so long in your lily-pond, with the rushes hemming you in, that when you hear all the frogs croaking on the same note, you think complacently, 'that is the voice of the people'.