But see, as a philosopher"-- Jean Jacques jerked a haughty assent--"as a philosopher you will want to know how and why it is.

Carmen will never tell you--a woman never tells the truth about such things, because she does not know how.

She does not know the truth ever, exactly, about anything.

It is because she is a woman.

But I would like to tell you the exact truth; and I can, because I am a man.