"It doesn't seem to me that a man would do that; he'd think he was just spoiling what was left.

That," she declared with a flash of inspiration, "is what a woman would do.

And a man always does something different!" There was a pathetic note in the last sentence, which struck Ford oddly.
"Don't think you know men, my dear, until you've been married to one for eight years or so," said Mrs.Kate patronizingly.

"When you've been--" "Oh, for mercy's sake, do you think they're all alike ?" Josephine's voice was tart and impatient.

"I know enough about men to know they're all different.