20/22 But since then I have often seen science baffled and untrained intelligences throw light upon hard questions: and your sex in particular has luminous instincts and reads things by flashes that we men miss with a microscope. Our dear Madame Raynal suspected that plausible notary, and to this day I believe she could not tell us why." Josephine admitted as much very frankly. "Well, then, you must help me in this case. And this time I promise to treat your art with more respect." "And pray who is it she is to read now ?" asked the baroness. I never knew a patient so faint-hearted." "A soldier faint-hearted!" exclaimed the baroness. |