"
"Not intimately, thank goodness!
"Not intimately, thank goodness!
Kipling - Poems
"
'Babies? '
"One only, but he talks of his wife in a revolting way. I hated him for
it. He thought he was being epigrammatic and brilliant. "
"That is a vice peculiar to men. I dislike him because he is generally
in the wake of some girl, disappointing the Eligibles. He will persecute
May Holt no more, unless I am much mistaken. "
"No. I think Mrs. Delville may occupy his attention for a while. "
"Do you suppose she knows that he is the head of a family? "
"Not from his lips. He swore me to eternal secrecy. Wherefore I tell
you. Don't you know that type of man?
"
"Not intimately, thank goodness! As a general rule, when a man begins to
abuse his wife to me, I find that the Lord gives me wherewith to answer
him according to his folly; and we part with a coolness between us. I
laugh. "
"I'm different. I've no sense of humor. "
"Cultivate it, then. It has been my mainstay for more years than I care
to think about. A well-educated sense of Humor will save a woman when
Religion, Training, and Home influences fail; and we may all need
salvation sometimes. "
"Do you suppose that the Delville woman has humor? "
"Her dress betrays her. How can a Thing who wears her supple'ment under
her left arm have any notion of the fitness of things--much less their
folly? If she discards The Dancing Master after having once seen him
dance, I may respect her, Otherwise--
"But are we not both assuming a great deal too much, dear? You saw
the woman at Peliti's--half an hour later you saw her walking with The
Dancing Master--an hour later you met her here at the Library. "
"Still with The Dancing Master, remember. "
"Still with The Dancing Master, I admit, but why on the strength of that
should you imagine"--
"I imagine nothing. I have no imagination.
'Babies? '
"One only, but he talks of his wife in a revolting way. I hated him for
it. He thought he was being epigrammatic and brilliant. "
"That is a vice peculiar to men. I dislike him because he is generally
in the wake of some girl, disappointing the Eligibles. He will persecute
May Holt no more, unless I am much mistaken. "
"No. I think Mrs. Delville may occupy his attention for a while. "
"Do you suppose she knows that he is the head of a family? "
"Not from his lips. He swore me to eternal secrecy. Wherefore I tell
you. Don't you know that type of man?
"
"Not intimately, thank goodness! As a general rule, when a man begins to
abuse his wife to me, I find that the Lord gives me wherewith to answer
him according to his folly; and we part with a coolness between us. I
laugh. "
"I'm different. I've no sense of humor. "
"Cultivate it, then. It has been my mainstay for more years than I care
to think about. A well-educated sense of Humor will save a woman when
Religion, Training, and Home influences fail; and we may all need
salvation sometimes. "
"Do you suppose that the Delville woman has humor? "
"Her dress betrays her. How can a Thing who wears her supple'ment under
her left arm have any notion of the fitness of things--much less their
folly? If she discards The Dancing Master after having once seen him
dance, I may respect her, Otherwise--
"But are we not both assuming a great deal too much, dear? You saw
the woman at Peliti's--half an hour later you saw her walking with The
Dancing Master--an hour later you met her here at the Library. "
"Still with The Dancing Master, remember. "
"Still with The Dancing Master, I admit, but why on the strength of that
should you imagine"--
"I imagine nothing. I have no imagination.
