"Now what＇s your point of view?" she asked of her aunt. "When you criticise everything here you should have a point of view. Yours doesn＇t seem to be American—you thought everything over there so disagreeable. When I criticise I have mine; it＇s thoroughly American!"
"My dear young lady," said Mrs. Touchett, "there are as many points of view in the world as there are people of sense to take them. You may say that doesn＇t make them very numerous! American? Never in the world; that＇s shockingly narrow. My point of view,thank God, is personal!"