The Barretts of Wimpole Street1934

Henrietta Barrett:
But, do you know Ba, sometimes I've wondered, are you, are you completely satisfied? Is it enough just to - to correspond with Mr. Browning, for instance? Don't you sometimes wish that you could see him?

Elizabeth Barrett:
If I could see and not be seen.

Henrietta Barrett:
Why?

Elizabeth Barrett:
Because, at heart, I'm as vain as a peacock. He thinks my verses, stately and beautiful. He probably thinks me, the same. It would be so humiliating to disillusion him.

Henrietta Barrett:
Oh, don't be silly, Ba. You're very interesting and picturesque.

Elizabeth Barrett:
Isn't that how the guidebooks usually describe a ruin?