"Is it--I am not much in your or her world, you know--is it a very marked thing for a girl to sit out three waltzes with one man ?" "Oh, no.

Nothing very special.

I have known girls do it often, but she is not like other girls, is she ?" The professor waves this question aside.
"Keep to the point," says he.
"Well, _she_ is the point, isn't she?
And look here, Curzon, why aren't you of our world?
It is your own fault surely; when one sees your sister, your brother, and--and _this_," with a slight glance round the dull little apartment, "one cannot help wondering why you----" "Let that go by," says the professor.

"I have explained it before.

I deliberately chose my own way in life, and I want nothing more than I have.