It was a dull subject, yet I was fascinated.

Weren't you ?" "It was interesting--at times," said Margaret.
"At times! Oh, you women!" At this scorn Margaret eyed his elegant attire, his face with its expression of an intelligence concentrated upon the petty and the paltry.

Her eyes suggested a secret amusement so genuine that she could not venture to reveal it in a gibe.

She merely said: "I confess I was more interested in him than in what he said." "Of course! Of course!" said Grant, all unconscious of her derision.
"Women have no interest in serious things and no mind for logic." She decided that it not only was prudent but also was more enjoyable to keep to herself her amusement at his airs of masculine superiority.

Said she, her manner ingenuous: "It doesn't strike me as astonishing that a man should make a sensible speech." Grant laughed as if she had said something much cleverer than she could possibly realize.