23/69 "You are an amusing fellow and as perverse as a woman." "I knew you would soon learn to like me," she responded. "The first step toward a man's affection is to amuse him. That old saw which says the road to a man's heart is through his stomach, is a sad mistake. Amusement is the highway to a man's affections." "It is better that one laugh with us than at us. There is a vast difference in the two methods," answered John, contemptuously. |