They strike so many more notes, and with so different a hand.

When it comes to any account of a relation say between a man and a woman--I mean an intimate or a curious or a suggestive one--where are we compared to them?
They don't exhaust the subject, no doubt," he admitted; "but we don't touch it, don't even skim it.

It's as if we denied its existence, its possibility.

You'll doubtless tell me, however," he went on, "that as all such relations ARE for us at the most much simpler we can only have all round less to say about them." She met this imputation with the quickest amusement.

"I beg your pardon.
I don't think I shall tell you anything of the sort.