Veriker's Speech to Lady Jane

"I was really ruffled. The only comfort was that if nobody saw anything, George Corvik was quite as much out of it as I." "My cheap review fluttered off into space and the best things I had said in it became flat enough beside the brilliancy of his being there" 'The author who feels bad that he has criticized this young reviewer is to divulge something about him which he's never spoken before' "'He couldn't have done anything more intensely effective.' And yet I want to even read his secret.'"