"—not all monsters, however. There are among them creatures not altogether differing from us, but differing much from each other,—"
"As much as you and I?"
"—some of them lovely and friendly, others frightful in their beauty and malignity,—"
"What nonsense!"
"Why do you call it nonsense?"
"How could anything beautiful be frightful?"
"I ought not to have said BEAUTIFUL. But the frightfullest face I ever saw ought to have been the finest. When the lady that owned it spoke to me, I shivered."
"But anyhow the whole thing is nonsense!"
"How is it nonsense?"
"Because there are no such creatures."