We have the same notions about justice, law, conduct; about what a man should be, about what a woman should be.

It is like the mother-tongue we share, yet speak with a difference.

Take the mother-tongue for a parable and symbol of all the rest.

Just as the word "girl" is identical to our sight but not to our hearing, and means oh! quite the same thing throughout us all in all its meanings, so that identity of nature which we share comes often to the surface in different guise.

Our loquacity estranges the Englishman, his silence estranges us.