He did not evince any great interest in it.
"You do not care for 'La Grande Duchesse ?'" she said.
"No--frankly, I do not," he replied.
"Tell me why," said Philippa.
"Can you ask me to do so, Philippa ?" he returned, surprised; and then he added, "I will tell you.

First of all, despite the taking music, it is a performance to which I should not care to bring my wife and sister." "Tell me why ?" she said, again.
"It lowers my idea of womanhood.

I could not forgive the woman, let her be duchess or peasant, who could show any man such great love, who could lay herself out so deliberately to win a man." She looked at him gravely.

He continued: "Beauty is very charming, I grant--as are grace and talent; but the chief charm to me of a woman is her modesty.

Do you not agree with me, Philippa ?" "Yes," she replied, "most certainly I do; but, Norman, you are hard upon us.