His ignorance about the common facts of life was as extraordinary as his perfect familiarity with matters known only to great scholars.

His views and tastes were strange to her, so strange as to be beyond her comprehension altogether.

She found herself unable to argue with him because their minds were set on different planes, and her representations did not seem to touch him in the very least.

And yet, after all, he was a very good boy, full of pure thoughts and kindly impulses and spiritual intuitions and intellectual proclivities which certainly no moralist would condemn.

If only he were more practical, even more commonplace, and wouldn't talk such nonsense! Then there would not be such a gulf between them as there was at present; then she might have some influence over him for good, at any rate.