Then he added simply, "For me she has always been a vision, that American lady.

It is for this that I study the English.

I have thought, 'When I meet one of those so charming Americans, I will do my possible.'" I could not help thinking of that family of eleven and the father with the saints.

It was pathetic to feel one's self a realised vision without any capacity for beneficence--worse in some respects than being obliged to be unkind to hopes with no financial basis.

It made one feel somehow so mercenary.