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