'Yes, I do. But you never can understand an impersonal admiration for anything. You say I do not appreciate beauty in women because I do not marry. You say I am determined on becoming a monk, because I admire monastic life.'
'But are you going to become a monk?' 'I am not sure that I should not prefer the world to be my monastery.'
'Now you are talking nonsense.'
'Now you are beginning to be rude, mother. … We were discussing the question of beauty in women.'
'Well, what fault, I should like to know, do you find with Lucy?'
John laughed, and after a moment's hesitation, he said—
'Her face is a pretty oval, but it conveys nothing to my mind; her eyes are large and soft, but there is no, no—-' John gesticulated with his fingers.
'No what?'
'No beyond.'
'No what?'