"I did. I heard it."
"He couldn't, could he?"
"Oh, Lord, no…. They appreciate him, too, Barbara."
"That isn't the way," she said. "We don't want him appreciated that way.
That rich, gross way."
"No. It isn't nearly subtle enough. Any fool could see that his caracoling was funny. They don't know him as we know him. They don't know what he really is."
"It was an outrage. It's like taking a fine thing and vulgarizing it. They'd no business. And it was cruel, too, to laugh at him like that before his back was turned. When they're going to eat his pears, too."
"The fact is, Barbara, nobody does appreciate him as you and I do."
"Horry?"
"No. Not Horry. He goes too far. Horry's indecent. Fanny, perhaps, sometimes."
"Fanny doesn't see one half of him. She doesn't see his Mrs. Levitt side."