- По-вашему, со мной очень трудно общаться?
- Это можно сказать обо всех умных людях, когда они молоды, - ответила Хелен.
- Да, конечно, умён я исключительно...
Among the promises which Mrs. Ambrose had made her niece should she stay was a room cut off from the rest of the house, large, private-a room in which she could play, read, think, defy the world, a fortress as well as a sanctuary. Rooms, she knew, became more like worlds than rooms at the age of twenty-four.