'I will wait until then to hear it.'
'I thought you did not care for her accompaniments.'
'I don't, as a rule. But it does not signify much, either way.'
'I've heard you declare that everything, the most trivial, ought to have a decided significance in one direction,' said Anna, after a little pause of astonishment.
'So I have, I believe.'
'And I know you have a great contempt for inconsistency.'
'Yes.'
'You once said it was the brand of our human nature.'
'I must have been in a grandiloquent or dogmatic mood. Perhaps I often am. However, it is true. It is also its bane, and I confess I am guilty of it.'