On the subject of woman he had a fairly large store.

But these two subjects had been unrelated.

Between the two memory compartments there had been no connection.

That, in the fabric of knowledge, there should be any connection whatever between a woman with hysterics and a schooner carrying a weather-helm or heaving to in a gale, would have struck him as ridiculous and impossible.

But Herbert Spencer had shown him not only that it was not ridiculous, but that it was impossible for there to be no connection.