But we've plenty of time to talk about it.

I'm at home to nobody else--It was really unkind of you to come back in a hurry! Besides, it's against your principles.

You wouldn't have done that if I had been a man." "A man would have said just what he meant," replied Dyce, smiling at her with kindly superiority.

"He wouldn't have put me in doubt." "No, no! But did I really write like that?
I thought it was just a plain little business-like note--indeed I did! It will be a lesson to me--indeed it will! And how did you find your people?
All well, I hope ?" "Well in one way; in another--but I'll tell you about that presently." Dyce had known Mrs.Woolstan for about a couple of years; it was in the second twelvemonth of their acquaintance that he matured his method with regard to women, and since then he had not only practised it freely, but had often discussed it, with her.

Iris gave the method her entire approval, and hailed it as the beginning of a new era for her sex.