As Tietjens saw the world, you didn't "talk." Perhaps you didn't even think about how you felt.

“New York is large, glamorous, easy-going, kindly and incurious, but above all i…”

“Higher than the beasts, lower than the angels, stuck in our idiot Eden.”

“He was presumably a lover. They did things like commanding battalions. And wors…”

“She was certainly now obsessing him! Beyond bearing or belief. His whole being …”