"But he's a clever chap." "Too clever, I think," said Nan.

"He fills one with a desire to have one's soul carefully fitted up with frosted glass windows." Penelope laughed.
"What nonsense! I think he's a delightful person." "Possibly.

But, all the same, I think I'm frightened of people who make me feel as if I'd no clothes on." "Nan!" "It's quite true.

Your most dazzling get-up wouldn't make an atom of difference to his opinion of the real 'you' underneath it all.

Why, one might just as well have no pretensions to good looks when talking to a man like that! It's sheer waste of good material." "Well, he's rather likely to want to get at the real 'you' of anybody he meets," interpolated Barry.