The difficulty with women is that their feelings are apt to get interested sooner than ours, and then, you know, reasoning is out of the question.

This is what old Fagg would have known had he been of any account.

But he wasn't.

So much the worse for him.
It was a few months afterward and I was sitting in my office when in walked old Fagg.

I was surprised to see him down, but we talked over the current topics in that mechanical manner of people who know that they have something else to say, but are obliged to get at it in that formal way.