"He is simply consumed with envy.

He has just come from a country, you know, where only the men do things; I mean things that really count.

And it makes him furiously jealous to see a young woman calmly doing things that he knows quite well he could not attempt to do." "Quite true," replied her brother.

"I am humbled to the ground at my own all to obvious ineptitude, and am lost in admiration of the marvellous efficiency of the young ladies of Canada whom it has been my good fortune to meet." Nora glanced at him suspiciously.

"You talk well," she said.