"I've got heaps of things. I've got my two hands and my two feet. I've
got my brain----"
"So have I. And yet----"
"It's absurd to say I've 'got' these things. They're me. Happiness
isn't in the things you've got. It's either in you or it isn't."
"It generally isn't. Go on. What else? You've got the moon and your
idea of the moon. I don't see that you've got much more."
"Anyhow, I've got my liberty."
"Your liberty--if that's all you want!"
"It's pretty nearly all. It covers most things."
"It does if you're an incurable egoist."
"You think I'm an egoist? And incurable?"
"It doesn't matter what I think."
"Not much. If you think that."
Silence. And then Rowcliffe burst out again.
"There are two things that I can't stand--a woman nursing a dog and
a woman in love with the moon. They mean the same thing. And it's
horrible."
"Why?"
"Because if it's humbug she's a hypocrite, and if it's genuine she's a
monster."
"And if I'm in love with the moon--and you said I was----"
"I didn't. You said it yourself."
"Not at all. I said _if_ I was in love with the moon, I'd be in love
with _it_ and not with my idea of it. I want reality."
"So do I. We're not likely to get it if we can't see it."
"No. If you're only in love with what you see."
"Oh, you're too clever. Too clever for me."
"Am I too clever for myself?"
"Probably."
He laughed abominably.
"I don't see the joke.
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