It is extraordinary how many women have no honest love of music as an end and not as a means, even leaving out those who have nothing in them.

They mostly like it for its accessories.

I have never met a woman who loves music as do ten or a dozen men I know.' 'How would you draw the line between women with something and women with nothing in them ?' 'Well,' said Knight, reflecting a moment, 'I mean by nothing in them those who don't care about anything solid.

This is an instance: I knew a man who had a young friend in whom he was much interested; in fact, they were going to be married.

She was seemingly poetical, and he offered her a choice of two editions of the British poets, which she pretended to want badly.