How perfectly beastly of you!" "Oh yes, you are.

There's plenty of aestheticism about you and your people--plenty of good intentions--but not an ounce of real business!" "Don't abuse my people; they're just as kind as you!" "Oh, they're kind enough, and they can see what's wrong.

It's not that which stops them.

But your dad's a regular official.

He's got so much sense of what he ought not to do that he never does anything; Just as Hilary's got so much consciousness of what he ought to do that he never does anything.