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You catch my meaning?"
"I catch it."
He nodded. He understood perfectly. Some analogous process was going on
within him at that moment. He, too, was discovering himself.
"Have you discovered yourself, Keith?"
"Yes, by other methods, elsewhere. I am only here for a short time in
the Spring and another ten days in September. That is hardly enough,
even supposing I were the sort of person to be accessible to these
externals. I have passed that stage. I am too old, too unemotional. I
prefer devouring a partridge EN CASSEROLE or listening to your
conversation ("listening to my conversation!" thought Mr. Heard) to all
the scenery in the world But I watch other people; I make it my
business to study their condition; I put myself in their places. JE
CONSTATE, as the French say. To them, the landscape of Nepenthe is
alive, often malignantly alive. They do what you cannot so effectually
do in the North; they humanize it, identifying its various aspects with
their own moods, its features with their own traditions.


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