"I should like to know what you think." "I hardly know--but--well, I must confess that I was disappointed." "You expected something better ?" She hesitated over her answer.

"I expected something different.

I suppose I looked for the dash of purple--or at least of red--in his appearance." "And he seemed ordinary ?" "In a way--yes.

His features are not striking, and yet when he talks to you and gets interested in his own ideas, he sheds a kind of warmth that is like magnetism.

I couldn't analyse it, but it is there." "That, I suppose, is the charm of which they talk.