I believe that the game of cards to teach them philosophy under defeat, respect for the inevitable and a cheerful manipulation of such trifling good fortune as may befall--instead of that wild, womanish demand for all or nothing--has yet to be invented.

I predict of this game, moreover, if ever it be found, that it will be a game at which two, at least, must play.

Rarely have I known a woman, however rigid her integrity otherwise, who would not brazenly amend or even repeal utterly those decrees of Fate which are symbolized by the game.

She desires intensely to win, and she will not be above shifting a card or two in contravention of the known rules.
Far am I from intimating that this puts upon her the stigma of moral delinquency.

It is mere testimony, rather, to her astounding capacity for self-deception.