Such terseness in the sex was remarkable and would have deserved a psychological investigation had it been based on any apparent data.

But women's opinions are so largely a matter of instinct and feeling, and so little of judgment and induction, that an analysis of the mental processes of the hundred girls who had reached this one conclusion, would probably have revealed in each a different method of obtaining this product.

The important point is to recognize this consensus of opinion, and to note its bearing on the development of the lad.
That Peter could remain ignorant of this feeling was not conceivable.

It puzzled him not a little when he first began to realize the prejudice, and he did his best to reverse it.

Unfortunately he took the very worst way.