She found herself wanting to please, instead of wanting to conquer, to make an effect.
"You have just come from the village, I think ?" said Hallin.

"Aldous tells me you take a great interest in the people ?" He looked at her kindly, the look of one who saw all his fellow-creatures nobly, as it were, and to their best advantage.
"One may take an interest," she said, in a dissatisfied voice, poking at the snow crystals on the road before her with the thorn-stick she carried, "but one can do so little.

And I don't know anything; not even what I want myself." "No; one can do next to nothing.

And systems and theories don't matter, or, at least, very little.

Yet, when you and Aldous are together, there will be more chance of _doing_, for you than for most.