" He's seen a great deal, anyway; he's cultured?" "It's an utterly different culture--their culture.

He's cultivated, one sees, simply to be able to despise culture, as they despise everything but animal pleasures.

" "But don't you all care for these animal pleasures?" she said, and again he noticed a dark look in her eyes that avoided him.

"How is it you're defending him?" he said, smiling.

"I'm not defending him, it's nothing to me; but I imagine, if you had not cared for those pleasures yourself, you might have got out of them.