5/9 We have both learnt to speak another language--you no less than I.Let me hear a word such as you used to speak. I know you despise me unutterably." "You are quite mistaken. I admire you very much." "What--my skill? You have become precisely what you were meant to be." "Oh, the scorn of that!" "I beg you not to think it for a moment. There was a time when I might have found a foolish pleasure in speaking to you with sarcasm. |