Mrs.
Willoughby got up nervously from her chair and walked to the opposite end of the room.
'These things,' continued Fielding in a perfectly complacent and unconscious tone, 'are best understood by their symbols.' Mrs.Willoughby swung round.

'Symbols ?' she asked curiously.
Fielding took a seat and leaned back comfortably.

'The feelings and emotions,' he began, 'have symbols in the visible world.

Of these symbols the greater number are flowers.

I won't trouble you with an enumeration of them, for in the first place I couldn't give it, and in the second, Shakespeare has provided a fairly comprehensive list.