They usedn't to come my way, and I didn't know anything at all about them." "Do you now ?" asked Sypher, with a smile.
"Oh, a great deal," replied Septimus seriously.

"It's astonishing what a lot of difference there is between them and between the ways men approach different types.

One woman a man wants to take by the hand and lead, and another--he's quite content if she makes a carpet of his body and walks over it to save her feet from sharp stones.

It's odd, isn't it ?" "Not very," said Sypher, who took a more direct view of things than Septimus.

"It's merely because he has got a kindly feeling for one woman and is desperately in love with the other." "Perhaps that's it," said Septimus.
Sypher again looked at him sharply, as a man does who thinks he has caught another man's soul secret.