but there lies the source of my disappointment,
of—yes—of my sorrow!
"You appreciate, I cannot doubt, the qualities
in woman which men value in one another—culture,
independence of thought, a high and earnest apprehension
of life; but you know not how to seek
them. It is not true that a mature and unperverted
woman is flattered by receiving only the
general obsequiousness which most men give to
the whole sex. In the man who contradicts and