I have left some very agreeable people over there." "Ah," said Acton, "but it was to come here, where I am!" "I did n't know of your existence.

Excuse me for saying anything so rude; but, honestly speaking, I did not.

No," the Baroness pursued, "it was precisely not to see you--such people as you--that I came." "Such people as me ?" cried Acton.
"I had a sort of longing to come into those natural relations which I knew I should find here.

Over there I had only, as I may say, artificial relations.

Don't you see the difference ?" "The difference tells against me," said Acton.