He felt inclined to be communicative with this silent man, who possessed so obviously all the good masculine qualities in which Katharine now seemed lamentably deficient.
"You do well, Denham," he began impulsively, "to have nothing to do with young women.

I offer you my experience--if one trusts them one invariably has cause to repent.

Not that I have any reason at this moment," he added hastily, "to complain of them.

It's a subject that crops up now and again for no particular reason.

Miss Datchet, I dare say, is one of the exceptions.