'How can you hate it ?' she inquired.

'It means so much that is intellectual, so much that is beautiful.' 'I suppose so,' said Miss Buchanan.

'I do like to look at it sometimes; the spaces and colour are so nice.' 'The spaces, and what's in them, surely.

What is it that you don't like?
The French haven't our standards of morality, of course, but don't you think it's rather narrow to judge them by our standards ?' Althea was pleased to set forth thus clearly her own liberality of standard.

She sometimes suspected Miss Buchanan of thinking her naive.
But Miss Buchanan now looked a little puzzled, as if it were not this at all that she had meant, and said presently that perhaps it was the women's faces--the well-dressed women.