But isn't that everything? I know that he is
very pure, and doesn't ordinarily care for women--usually I have no
feeling about men--and that he played football at Princeton and is very
strong. You have no idea, Mr. Randon, how different he is from the men
I am thrown with! There are some actors, of course, who are very fine,
wonderful to work with; but the ones not quite so finished.... It's
natural, for many reasons, in a woman to act; but there is something,
well--something, about men acting, as a rule; don't you agree?"
Lee did, and told her so with a growing pleasure in the rightness of
her perceptions. "Peyton is altogether different from the men of the
stage," he developed her observation; "and it is a capital thing he did
play football; for, in the next year or so, until he grows used to your
life, he'll have a collection of men to knock down. I'd like to tell
you whatever I have discovered about him, for your own consideration,
and Peyton is a snob. That isn't necessarily a term of contempt; with
him it simply means that he is impatient, doubtful, at what he doesn't
know. And first under that head come the arts; they have no existence
for him or his friends. A play or a book pleases him or it doesn't, he
approves of its limiting conventional morals, or violently condemns
what he thinks is looseness, and that's the extent of his interest.
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