"She likes him very much. She's very fastidious, very hard to please, very critical."
I said everyone seemed to like Kranitski.
"Aunt Netty says he's commonplace, but that's because Mr. Rudd said he was commonplace."
I said Rudd always had theories about people.
"You like Mr. Rudd?" she asked.
I said I did, and reminded her that she had told me she did.
"If you want to know the truth," she said, "I don't. I think he's awful." She laughed. "Isn't it funny? A week ago I would have rather died than admit this to you, but now I don't care. Of course I know he's a good writer and clever and subtle, and all that—but I've come to the conclusion——"
"To what conclusion?"
"Well, that I don't—that I like the other sort of people better."
"The stupid people?"