for in my other life look cheap in comparison. I don't know how to explain myself\"—she drew together her troubled brows—\"but it seems as if I'd never before understood with how much that is hard and shabby and base the most exquisite pleasures may be paid.\"
\"Exquisite pleasures—it's something to have had them!\" he felt like retorting; but the appeal in her eyes kept him silent.
\"I want,\" she went on, \"to be perfectly
for in my other life look cheap in comparison. I don't know how to explain myself\"—she drew together her troubled brows—\"but it seems as if I'd never before understood with how much that is hard and shabby and base the most exquisite pleasures may be paid.\"
\"Exquisite pleasures—it's something to have had them!\" he felt like retorting; but the appeal in her eyes kept him silent.
\"I want,\" she went on, \"to be perfectly
