"The brain?" she suggested.
"Of course," he exclaimed. "And what is more, beneath the brow lies the thinking part of the brain. So that in order really to have a fair face we must have a fair proportion of brain."
She smiled and bowed her head.
"Peachy's clever, isn't she?" she demanded. "So I suppose we girls ought not to be so very dull."
"Don't believe those who tell you beautiful people are stupid. It is the ugly who say that to console themselves. Just as the fools of the world write books about geniuses being mad."
She laughed. "You do say funny things!" she cried.
"Funny?" he repeated.
"Well, true things then. I wish everybody talked as you do. One feels so much safer to know the truth about everything."
At this point, however, Cleopatra came towards them from the house.
"I've found Edith at last," she exclaimed. "She's with the others in the marquee near the rose garden. We're just going to have tea. Are you coming?"