Your mistake is this, and it is a very common mistake. This young bounder has a life of his own. What right have you to conclude it is an unsuccessful life, or, as you call it, 'grey'?"
"Because-"
"One minute. You know nothing about him. He probably has his own joys and interests-wife, children, snug little home. That's where we practical fellows" he smiled-"are more tolerant than you intellectuals. We live and let live, and assume that things are jogging on fairly well elsewhere, and that the ordinary plain man may be trusted to look after his own affairs. I quite grant-I look at the faces of the clerks in my own office, and observe them to be dull, but I don't know what's going on beneath.
"Because-"
"One minute. You know nothing about him. He probably has his own joys and interests-wife, children, snug little home. That's where we practical fellows" he smiled-"are more tolerant than you intellectuals. We live and let live, and assume that things are jogging on fairly well elsewhere, and that the ordinary plain man may be trusted to look after his own affairs. I quite grant-I look at the faces of the clerks in my own office, and observe them to be dull, but I don't know what's going on beneath.
( E.M. Forster )
[ Howards End ]
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