Danyers afterwards liked to fancy that he had recognized Mrs. Anerton at once; but that, of course, was absurd, since he had seen no portrait of her—she affected a strict anonymity, refusing even her photograph to the most privileged—and from Mrs. Memorall, whom he revered and cultivated as her friend, he had extracted but the one impressionist phrase: “Oh, well, she’s like one of those old prints where the lines have the value of color.”
丹尼尔斯后来一直觉得自己立刻认出了阿内顿夫人，转念一想，又觉得荒谬，因为他从未见过她的肖像——她假装隐姓埋名，甚至拒绝将她的照片给最有特权的梅默尔夫人。他将梅默尔夫人视作值得尊敬和结交的朋友，话到嘴边，最终精炼地汇成一个颇具印象派色彩的短句：“哦，好吧，她就像那些带有珍贵色彩线条的旧版画。”
