You know, she can do almost anything, and yet she's as unaffected----" "As some one else we know," interrupted the Professor with another smile.
"And then, you know, Mrs van Huysman," continued Nitocris with a little flush, "is such a dear, innocent, good-natured thing, so good-hearted and so deliciously American.

Of course, you can fight with the Professor as much as you like in print, and in lecture halls--I know you both love it--but you'll still be friends socially, won't you ?" "Which, of course, means garden-parties and river trips, and similar frivolities that learned young ladies love so much.

You needn't trouble about that, Niti.

I shall not allow my zeal for scientific truth to interfere with your social pleasures, you may be quite sure.

Science, as you know, has nothing to do with what we call Society, except as one of the most curious phenomena of Sociology.