Perhaps then you would have understood the contradictious girl, as well as I did.

You see, she wanted me to know that she preferred the Manchester warehouse men, and the Yorkshire spinners, and the share-tumblers of the stock exchange to knights and poets and that make of men.

Now, some women would have said the words straightforward, but not Jane.

She prefers to state her likings and dislikings in riddles and leave you to find out their meaning." "That is an uncomfortable, uncertain way." "To be sure it is, but if you want to marry Jane Harlow, you had better take it into account.

I never said she was perfect." "If ever she is my wife, I shall teach her very gently to speak straightforward words." "Then you have your work set, John.