If he could keep her attention for a little while, they might have a really interesting investigation of each other's thoughts.
"I like thinking of things, too--and trying to discover their meanings and what caused them.

We are all, of course, the victims of heredity." "That may be," she agreed, "but the will can control any heredity.

It can only manifest itself when we let ourselves drift.

The tragedy of it is that we have drifted too far sometimes before we learn that we could have directed the course if we had willed.

Ignorance is seemingly the most cruel foe we have to encounter, because we are so defenseless, not knowing he is there." She sighed unconsciously and looked out over the beautiful tree-tops, down to where the Kaiser Park appeared like a little doll's chalet set among streams and pastures green.
Lord Fordyce was much moved.