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I really think if Lisette had pinned up that curtain
I should have learned something more about female human nature.
But Judith is the only woman I have known intimately all my life
long, and sometimes I wonder whether I shall ever know her. I
told her so once. She answered: "If you loved me you would know
me." Very likely she was right. Honestly speaking, I don't love
Judith. I am accustomed to her. She is a lady, born and bred.
She is an educated woman and takes quite an intelligent interest
in the Renaissance. Indeed she has a subtler appreciation of the
Venetian School of Painting than I have. She first opened my
eyes, in Italy, to the beauties, as a gorgeous colourist, of
Palma Vecchio in his second or Giorgionesque manner. She is in
every way a sympathetic and entertaining companion. Going
deeper, to the roots of human instinct, I find she represents to
me--so chance has willed it--the _ewige weibliche_ which must
complement masculinity in order to produce normal existence. But
as for the "_zieht uns hinan_"--no.


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