And Mr.
Brace, the consulting engineer, who showed her on the table-cloth at dessert with three forks and a spoon the method in which the overflow of the spillway of the Gatun Dam is regulated, felt assured, from the way she leaned her face on her hand sideways and said, "How extraordinary!" that she had the brain of an engineer.

Similarly foreign visitors to the social circles of the city were delighted with her.

Viscount FitzThistle, who explained to Dulphemia for half an hour the intricacies of the Irish situation, was captivated at the quick grasp she showed by asking him at the end, without a second's hesitation, "And which are the Nationalists ?" This kind of thing represents female intellect in its best form.

Every man that is really a man is willing to recognize it at once.

As to the young men, of course they flocked to the Rasselyer-Brown residence in shoals.