That is the difference between them and the Frenchman.

The Frenchman is still interested in the ladies.

After dinner the Frenchman wants to go and sit with the ladies--the Englishman, no! That is why the French are still agreeable.' The small black eyes of the speaker sparkled, but otherwise she looked round with challenging serenity on the English and Americans around her.
Madame Variani--stout, clever, middle-aged, and disinterested--had a position of her own in Rome.

She was the correspondent of a leading French paper; she had many English friends; and she and the Marchesa Fazzoleni, at the Ambassador's right hand, had just been doing wonders for the relief of the Italian sick and wounded after the miserable campaign of Adowa.
'Oh! I hide my diminished head!' said the old Ambassador, taking his white locks in both hands.

'All I know is, I have sent twenty wedding presents already this year--and that the state of my banking account is wholly inconsistent with these theories.' 'Ah! you are exceptional,' said the lady.