[Faces that disappoint.] ... I have known the effect of an impressive face that endures for an evening - at Stopford Brooke's one evening I saw come in at the door a glorious creature, who looked as romantic as Hamlet, and as gifted as Shakespeare, and can I say fairer? - he was tall and dark-haired, and pale-faced, and in ten minutes I was nearly sick when I looked at him; he had turned into a Baptist leper somehow and I thought my wits were leaving me - they were returning to me really, I had made a mistake: and when I told Morris of this experience he said something of the same kind had happened to him in that very instance: the man as Norwegian and I think an adventurer, ...