I can't imagine where he was staying.
And I thought I would ask you if you knew who he was." "We could do very well without men," Miss Bride said sharply.

"In fact, the world could have got on very well without them.

There is nothing a man can do that a woman can not do better.

What was your gentleman like, Bawn ?" Despite her hostility to the male sex Miss Bride was very curious.
"He was very slim and elegant," I began--"not very young." "Now what do you mean by not very young, Bawn?
Be precise in your statements," Miss Bride said, with some asperity.
"I should say he was quite forty," I said, blushing, and wishing I had not mentioned the matter of age.
"Fiddlesticks, child! Forty is young.

And so you met this young gentleman in the wood.