Are you shocked now ?" "N-o--no," said I, with some hesitation.

"It is all so different." "At any rate," said he, "one thing I think I can answer for: whatever sentiment there is, it is real--and general; it is not confined to people very specially refined.

I am also pretty sure, as I hinted to you just now, that there is not by a great way as much suffering involved in these matters either to men or to women as there used to be.

But excuse me for being so prolix on this question! You know you asked to be treated like a being from another planet." "Indeed I thank you very much," said I.

"Now may I ask you about the position of women in your society ?" He laughed very heartily for a man of his years, and said: "It is not without reason that I have got a reputation as a careful student of history.