Heaven
knows the femme incomprise is sad enough and bad enough but
the other thing!'
'And so fat too! I should have laughed in his face. Men seldom
confide in me. How is it they come to you?'
'For the sake of impressing me with their careers in the past.
Protect me from men with confidences!'
'And yet you encourage them?'
'What can I do? They talk, I listen, and they vow that I am
sympathetic. I know I always profess astonishment even when the
plot is of the most old possible.'
'Yes. Men are so unblushingly explicit if they are once allowed to
talk, whereas women's confidences are full of reservations and
fibs, except '
'When they go mad and babble of the Unutter-abilities after a
week's acquaintance. Really, if you come to consider, we know a
great deal more of men than of our own sex.'
'And the extraordinary thing is that men will never believe it. They
say we are trying to hide something.'
'They are generally doing that on their own account. Alas! These
chocolates pall upon me, and I haven't eaten more than a dozen. I
think I shall go to sleep.'
'Then you'll get fat, dear. If you took more exercise and a more
intelligent interest in your neighbours you would '
'Be as much loved as Mrs. Hauksbee. You're a darling in many
ways, and I like you you are not a woman's woman but why do you
trouble yourself about mere human beings?'
'Because in the absence of angels, who I am sure would be horribly
dull, men and women are the most fascinating things in the whole
wide world, lazy one.
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