"You think me a dangerous specimen of my sex. Don't you now?"
"A peculiar one, at least."
"But Caroline—is she peculiar?"
"In her way—yes."
"Her way! What is her way?"
"You know her as well as I do."
"And knowing her, I assert that she is neither eccentric nor difficult of control. Is she?"
"That depends——"
"However, there is nothing masculine about her?"
"Why lay such emphasis on her? Do you consider her a contrast, in that respect, to yourself?"