"You find your environment disagreeable?"
"All environments are more or less disagreeable to me."
"All which you have tried up to the present, perhaps. Perhaps the future may be more propitious."
"Sanctity, I earnestly hope so: but I do not expect it."
"Why not?"
"I do not know."
"Don't you find that your circumstances influence your conduct? Don't you find that they prevent you from doing yourself justice?"
"Always."
"In this college, you have found no kindred spirit?"
"That may be my fault."