“Well, she is a bit of an operator. A good many women here amuse themselves a little in stocks.”
“It doesn't seem to me very feminine.”
“No? But women generally like to' take risks and chances. In countries where lotteries are established they always buy tickets.”
“Ah! then they only risk what they have. I think women are more prudent and conservative than men.”
“No doubt. They are conservatives usually. But when they do go in for radical measures and risks, they leave us quite behind.” Mr. Henderson did not care to extend the conversation in this direction, and he asked, abruptly, “Are you finding New York agreeable, Miss Debree?”
“Yes. Yes and no. One has no time to one's self. Do you understand why it is, Mr. Henderson, that one can enjoy the whole day and then be thoroughly dissatisfied with it?”
“Perfectly; when the excitement is over.”
“And then I don't seem to be myself here. I have a feeling of having lost myself.”
“Because the world is so big?”
“Not that. Do you know, the world seems much smaller here than at home.”