That," he added, handing his empty cup to a footman, "is why I am a bachelor." The Duchess regarded him complacently.
"My dear Sir Leslie," she said, "I am afraid you will have to find a better reason for your miserable state.

The perfect woman would certainly have nothing to do with you if you found her." "On the contrary," he declared, confidently, "I am convinced that she would find me attractive." The Duchess shook her head.
"Your theory," she declared, "is antiquated.

Like and unlike do not attract.

We seek in others the qualities which we strive most zealously to develop in ourselves.

I know a case in point." "Good!" Sir Leslie remarked.