She's five times
cleverer
than I am.
Kipling - Poems
Capt. M. What does she say?
Capt. G. I haven't exactly put it before her. She's the best little
woman in the world, Jack, and all that--but she wouldn't counsel a man
to stick to his calling if it came between him and her. At least, I
think--
Capt. M. Never mind. Don't tell her what you told me. Go on the Peerage
and Landed-Gentry tack.
Capt. G. She'd see through it.
She's five times cleverer than I am.
Capt. M. (Aside. ) Then she'll accept the sacrifice and think a little
bit worse of him for the rest of her days.
Capt. G. (Absently. ) I say, do you despise me?
Capt. M. 'Queer way of putting it. Have you ever been asked that
question? Think a minute. What answer used you to give?
Capt.
