13/27 Is it not strange? How is that ?" ("Because," Sir Austin wrote beside the query in pencil, "women are cowards, and succumb to Irony and Passion, rather than yield their hearts to Excellence and Nature's Inspiration.") The letter pursued: "I have finished Boiardo and have taken up Berni. I suppose we women do not really care for humour. You are right in saying we have none ourselves, and 'cackle' instead of laugh. |