"
"What is her theory of life?" Alicia demanded, quickly. "I should be
glad of a new one."
Lindsay's communicativeness seemed to contract a little, as at the touch
of a finger light but cold.
"I don't think she has ever told me," he said. "No, I am sure she has
not." His reflection was, "It is her garment--and how could it fit
another woman?"
"But you have divined it--she has let you do that! You can give me your
impression."
He recognised her bright courage in venturing upon impalpabilities, but
not without a shade of embarrassment.
"Perhaps. But having perceived to pass on--it doesn't follow that one
can. I don't seem able to lay my hand upon the signs and symbols."
The faintest look of disappointment, the slightest cloud of submission,
appeared upon Miss Livingstone's face.
"Oh, I know!" she said. "You are making me feel dreadfully out of it,
but I know. It surrounds her like a kind of atmosphere, an intellectual
atmosphere. Though I confess that is the part I don't understand in
connection with an actress."
There was a sudden indifference in this last sentence. Alicia lay back
upon her wolf-skins like a long-stemmed flower cast down among them, and
looked away from the subject at the teacups.
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