quoted Eve.
“Spare me from Kipling. It is so disheartening to find one’s views supported by quotations.”
“I’m not so advanced as that. I’m rather proud of quotations—I look on them as medals for reading.”
He made an intolerant gesture.
“But no sane persons show their medals.”
“While I’m young I had rather not be altogether sane.”
“Good! I take back sanity. It’s the worst asset an artist can possess.”
She looked at him with a faint, intricate smile.
“You are easy to catch out,” she said.
“Possibly. I don’t aspire to be a cricketer. Indeed, cricket stands for all I dislike most. Cricket is an Englishman’s notion of the proper conduct of life—a game with rules. If he resists seducing a friend’s wife it is because to do so is not cricket.”