It is freezing as hard as it can freeze, and they might as well try to hunt in Lapland as here." "They'll console themselves with skating," said Mrs.Dale.
"Have you ever observed, Grace," said Miss Dale, "how much amusement gentlemen require, and how imperative it is that some other game should be provided when one game fails ?" "Not particularly," said Grace.
"Oh, but it is so.

Now, with women, it is supposed that they can amuse themselves or live without amusement.

Once or twice in a year, perhaps something is done for them.

There is an arrow-shooting party, or a ball, or a picnic.

But the catering for men's sport is never-ending, and is always paramount to everything else.