The girls that we meet at teas and receptions and functions--don't you suppose they know the life we men lead?
Of course they do.

They may not know it in detail, but they know in a general way that we get drunk a good deal and go to disreputable houses and that sort of thing, and do they ever cut us for that?
No, sir; not much.
Why, I tell you, they even have a little more respect for us.

They like a man to know things, to be experienced.

A man that keeps himself straight and clean and never goes around with fast women, they think is ridiculous.

Of course, a girl don't want to know the particulars of a man's vice; what they want is that a man should have the knowledge of good and evil, yes, and lots of evil.