"At times," he says, with a queer laugh, "you've almost made me live there too."
He reflects. "It doesn't do, you know. No! And I don't know whether, after all, I want——"
We are separated again by half-a-dozen lifted flagstones, a burning brazier, and two engineers concerned with some underground business or other—in the busiest hour of the day's traffic.
"Why shouldn't it do?" I ask.
"It spoils the world of everyday to let your mind run on impossible perfections."
"I wish," I shout against the traffic, "I could smash the world of everyday."