"What are you, then?"
"Nothing. Mamma says that, just to excuse me. I'm nothing and a very useless member of society at that. And I'm not even well off."
"But you are studying, aren't you?"
"No. I do a little casual reading. My sisters call it studying."
"Do you like going about, as your sisters do?"
"No, I hate it. I never go with them."
"Don't you like meeting and studying people?"
"No. I like pictures, statues and trees."
"A poet?"
"No. Nothing. I am nothing, really."