"She looks human, natural, real.

By Jove, she looks as if she were capable of big emotions--as if, too, you could like her without making love.

She's something new." Gerty's amazement was so sincere that she only stared at him, while her red lips parted slightly in a breathless and perfectly unaffected surprise.

Something new! Her wonder faded slowly, and she told herself that now at last she understood.

So he was still what he had always been--an impatient seeker after fresh sensations.
"I thought you were too much like Perry to care about her," she said.
His amused glance made the remark appear suddenly ridiculous.