At this she again met his eyes. “Oh, to tell it would be to express it, and that`s just what I can`t do. What I meant to say just now,” she added, “was that the French, to my sense, give us only again and again, forever and ever, the same couple. There they are once more, as one has had them to satiety, in that yellow thing, and there I shall certainly again find them in the blue.”
“Then why do you keep reading about them?” Mrs. Dyott demanded.
Maud hesitated. “I don`t!” she sighed. “At all events, I shan`t any more. I give it up.”
“You`ve been looking for something, I judge,” said Colonel Voyt, “that you`re not likely to find. It doesn`t exist.”
“What is it?” Mrs. Dyott inquired.
“I never look,” Maud remarked, “for anything but an interest.” “Naturally. But your interest,” Voyt replied, “is in something different from life.”
“Ah, not a bit! I love life in art, though I hate it anywhere else. It`s the poverty of the life those people show, and the awful bounders, of both sexes, that they represent.”
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“Oh, now we have you!” her interlocutor laughed. “To me, when all`s said and done, they seem to be as near as art can come in the truth of the truth. It can only take what life gives it, though it certainly may be a pity that that isn`t better. Your complaint of their monotony is a complaint of their conditions. When you say we get always the same couple what do you mean but that we get always the same passion? Of course we do!” Voyt declared. “If what you`re looking for is another, that`s what you won`t anywhere find.”
Maud for a while said nothing, and Mrs. Dyott seemed to wait. “Well, I suppose I`m looking, more than anything else, for a decent woman.”
“Oh, then, you mustn`t look for her in pictures of passion. That`s not her element nor her whereabouts.”
Mrs. Blessingbourne weighed the objection. “Doesn`t it depend on what you mean by passion?”
“I think one can mean only one thing: the enemy to behavior.” “Oh, I can imagine passions that are, on the contrary, friends to it.” Her interlocutor thought. “Doesn`t it depend perhaps on what you mean by behavior?”
“Dear, no. Behavior is just behavior the most definite thing in the world.”
“Then what do you mean by the `interest` you just now spoke of? The picture of that definite, thing?”
“Yes call it that. Women aren`t always vicious, even when they`re ”
“When they`re what?” Voyt asked.
“When they`re unhappy. They can be unhappy and good.”
“That one doesn`t for a moment deny. But can they be `good` and interesting?”
“That must be Maud`s subject!” Mrs. Dyott explained. “To show a woman who is. I`m afraid, my dear,” she continued, “you could only show yourself.”
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