A Parthenon audience would resent what they believed to be a false note in art; and a Parthenon audience is supposed to be the concentration of the spirit of the period in thought and art; isn't it ?" "I don't know.

I'm half a savage.

But I like to think the best of a Parthenon audience; you and I formed part of that concentration to-night--yes, I like to think the best of it.

I suppose we know--we, the Parthenon audience, I mean--what our feelings are on the art of acting--the art of play-writing." "I shouldn't like to have to define my feelings at a moment's notice." "One must make a beginning, and then work up gradually to the definition." "For instance----" "Well, for instance, there's something that people call realism nowadays." "My father has his ideas on what's called realism," Phyllis laughed.
"'Realism in painting is the ideal with a smudge.'" "I should like to hear what you think of it ?" He also laughed sympathetically.
"Oh, I only venture to think that realism is the opposite to reality." "And, so far as I can gather, your definition is not wanting in breadth--no, nor in accuracy.

Sentimentality is the opposite to sentiment." "That is a point on which we agreed a moment ago.