Arthur came down for the week end. He likes the Lady of Shalott. She is "not handsome, but arresting, striking" and "capable of tragedy." That I believe she has achieved already.... If she were a bit more gloomy and a bit more beautiful, she'd be irresistible.
November 22.
He: "Have a cigarette? I enjoy lighting your cigarettes."
She: "I don't know how to smoke properly."
He: "You smoke only as you could."
She: "How's that?"
H.: "Gracefully, of course."
S.: "Do you think I like pretty things being said to me?"
H.: "Why not, if they are true. Flattery is when you tell an ugly woman she is beautiful. Have you so poor an opinion of yourself to think all I say of you is flattery?"
S.: "Yes. I am only four bare walls,—with nothing inside."