Did you see Jane ?" Then Leonard told him all the story.
"What do you think she will do ?" asked Tom when his brother had finished.

"Given the situation and the woman, it is rather a curious problem." "It may be," answered Leonard; "but as I am not an equation in algebra yearning to be worked out, I don't quite see the fun of it.

But if you ask me what I think she will do, I should say that she will follow the example of everybody else and desert me." "You seem to have a poor idea of women, old fellow.

I know little of them myself and don't want to know more.

But I have always understood that it is the peculiar glory of their sex to come out strong on these exceptional occasions.