“Hear me out! I try not to have flights of fancy. I try to do as other men do. I watch them and see how they concern themselves with the mundane matters of this world. They think about train schedules and dinner menus, bank accounts and calendars, and their minds seem to settle contentedly on these things—like yours does, Maud—but it doesn’t work like that for me. These ideas come to me, they crowd up my brain, and they want to go somewhere—they want to be expressed!”
