But we must not get conceited, my brothers, over this fact.

The converse, unhappily, does not hold true.

Very few men ever study the character of a woman at all.

Either they fall in love with her before they have had time to make more than a sketch, and do not afterward pursue the subject, or they do not fall in love with her at all; and in the latter case it hardly seems worth while to follow up a first rough draft.
"Checkmate," said Lala Roy.
The game was finished and the evening over.

"Would you like," he said, another evening, "to see my studio, or do you consider my studio outside myself ?" "I should very much like to see an artist's studio," she replied with her usual frankness, leaving it an open question whether she would not be equally pleased to see any other studio.
She came, however, accompanied by Lala Roy, who had never been in a studio before, and indeed had never looked at a picture, except with the contemptuous glance which the philosopher bestows upon the follies of mankind.