“Beautiful?”
“Nor beautiful.”
“What then?”
“No word that I know would be adequate. You might say fascinating if it hadn’t been vulgarized; and chic would be worse.”
“She’s tremendously animated—and vivid.”
“She has the most living eyes and mouth I’ve ever seen in a human being. I’ve never seen a face so aglow with mind, emotion, and color. She’s all flame, but a flame like that of the burning bush, afire from a force within.”
He spoke bitterly. “And people talk about that being conquered!”
To lead him further I said, “Has any one talked of it?”
“Didn’t you know?”
“How should I know? You—you’ve never told me.”