"I wish that I did."
"But don't you?"
"Civilization wouldn't stand for it."
"Perhaps not every one could bear it, but some could. I could, I'm sure."
"Are you so sure?"
"Yes, I am sure. I was talking with Jane alone just at the gate before I left, and she believes that frankness is best always."
"It's easiest, certainly." Lorenzo raised his eyebrows a little impatiently, but she paid no attention.
"Do you think so?"
"Why, of course. When one wants to be let alone and blurts out, 'Let me alone,' why, one gets let alone."
"Oh, but that would be impolite," said Emily, feeling that for an artist he used very crude metaphor. "Of course, Jane and I were not talking about that kind of people, or that kind of ways. We were talking of people like you and me—nice people, you know. Jane advised me to be quite frank with you."