I don't mean a tutor,--you are too clever and too steady to need one,--but a pleasant, sensible, well-mannered young person of your own age." "My own age,--male or female ?" Sir Peter tried hard to frown.

The utmost he could do was to reply gravely, "FEMALE! If I said you were too steady to need a tutor, it was because you have hitherto seemed little likely to be led out of your way by female allurements.

Among your other studies may I inquire if you have included that which no man has ever yet thoroughly mastered,--the study of women ?" "Certainly.

Do you object to my catching another trout ?" "Trout be--blessed, or the reverse.

So you have studied woman.