This was very metaphysical; not more so, however,than several observations Madame Merle had already made. Isabel was fond of metaphysics, but was unable to accompany her friend into this bold analysis of the human personality. "I don＇t agree with you. I think just the other way. I don＇t know whether I succeed in expressing myself, but I know that nothing else expresses me. Nothing that belongs to me is any measure of me; everything＇s on the contrary a limit,a barrier, and a perfectly arbitrary one. Certainly the clothes which, as you say, I choose to wear, don＇t express me; and heaven forbid they should!"