She looked very much alive. It was her aliveness, more than her beauty, which struck the predominant note.……“One does not, you know, employ merely the muscles. I do not need to bend and measure the footprints and pick up the cigarette ends and examine the bent blades of grass. It is enough for me to sit back in my chair and think. It is this”—he tapped his egg-shaped head— “this that functions!”