What I was going to try and put into words without sounding too priggish, Lady Cynthia," he went on, "is this.

It is just you people who are cursed with a restless brain who are in the most dangerous position, nowadays.

The things which keep us healthy and normal physically--games, farces, dinner-parties of young people, fresh air and exercise--are the very things which after a time fail to satisfy the person with imagination.

You want more out of life, always the something you don't understand, the something beyond.

And so you keep on trying new things, and for every new thing you try, you drop an old one.