He, who made up his mind at a moment's notice about everything else, took time to decide on this one occasion.
"There is something that I want to know first," he said.

"I want to understand this curious antipathy of Lucilla's which my brother regards with so much alarm.

Can you explain it ?" "Has Oscar attempted to explain it ?" I inquired on my side.
"He mentioned it in one of his letters to me; and he tried to explain it, when I asked (on my arrival at Browndown) if Lucilla had discovered the change in his complexion.

But he failed entirely to meet my difficulty in understanding the case." "What is your difficulty ?" "This.

So far as I can see, she fails to discover intuitively the presence of dark people in a room, or of dark colors in the ornaments of a room.