"What do you know about the people? and what does she, for that matter?"
"She knows a great deal, and I know enough to feel that she＇s a kind of emanation of the great democracy—of the continent, the country, the nation.I don＇t say that she sums it all up, that would be too much to ask of her. But she suggests it; she vividly昀gures it."
"You like her then for patriotic reasons. I＇m afraid it is on those very grounds I object to her."
"Ah," said Isabel with a kind of joyous sigh, "I like so many things! If a thing strikes me with a certain intensity I accept it. I don＇t want to swagger,but I suppose I＇m rather versatile. I like people to be totally different from Henrietta—in the style of Lord Warburton＇s sisters for instance. So long as I look at the Misses Molyneux they seem to me to answer a kind of ideal. Then Henrietta presents herself, and I＇m straightway convinced by her; not so much in respect to herself as in respect to what masses behind her."