Tell me, monsieur, do you know much of women ?" "God forbid! I have found trouble enough in my life." "And you pass judgment thus upon a sex with which you have no acquaintance ?" "Not by acquaintance only is it that we come to knowledge.

There are ways of learning other than by the road of experience.

One may learn of dangers by watching others perish.

It is the fool who will be satisfied alone with the knowledge that comes to him from what he undergoes himself." "You are very wise, monsieur," said she demurely, so demurely that he suspected her of laughing at him.

"You were never wed ?" "Never, mademoiselle," he answered stiffly, "nor ever in any danger of it." "Must you, indeed, account it a danger ?" "A deadly peril, mademoiselle," said he; whereupon they both laughed.
She pushed back her chair and rose slowly.