Thus nature and true perception spoke in her, even while she was seeking to blind herself by false reasonings.
"Yes, he's a rare exception; and it's well for us both that it is so.

If he were like your husband, for instance, one of us would have been before the legislature for a divorce within twelve months of our marriage night." "Like my husband! What do you mean ?" Mrs.Emerson drew herself up, with half real and half affected surprise.
"Oh, he's one of your men who have positive qualities about them--strong in intellect and will." Irene felt pleased with the compliment bestowed upon her husband.
"But wrong in his ideas of woman." "How do you know ?" asked Irene.
"How do I know?
As I know all men with whom I come in contact.

I probe them." "And you have probed my husband ?" "Undoubtedly." "And do not regard him as sound on this subject ?" "No sounder than other men of his class.

He regards woman as man's inferior." "I think you state the case too strongly," said Mrs.Emerson, a red spot burning on her cheek.

"He thinks them mentally different." "Of course he does." "But not different as to superiority and inferiority," replied Irene.
"Mere hair-splitting, my child.