"I cannot say that. I like it as a place of business."
"And not as a place of pleasure?"
"No. Except in so far as the pushing on of business may be pleasure."
"You are drawing a distinction in one breath which you confound in the next," said Elizabeth.
"I didn't know that you would detect it," he said with a half smile.
"Detect what?"
"The distinction between business and pleasure."
"Do you think I don't know the difference?"
"You cannot know the difference, without knowing the things to be compared."
"The things to be compared! —" said she, with a good look at him out of her dark eyes. "And which of them do you think I don't know?"