"You gave an instructive and interesting talk," she was saying. He recalled his wandering thoughts.
After thanking her, he said he had liked Patrick's remarks about her being a magnet.
"Patrick's great fun, isn't he?" she laughed.
"Yes, but he usually hits the right nail on the head. It is true, as he said, you do draw people to you. You draw me to you as no one has ever done."
"Don't!" she began.
"You have taught me to believe in true womanhood. I used to despise women. I thought they were a vain, frivolous lot, at the bottom of all the wrong-doing of the world."
"Indeed! I understand that some Englishmen have very little respect for woman; that she is regarded as the inferior of man, a little higher in the scale of intelligence than a horse or dog."
"How sarcastic we are to-night!" he said ironically.
"The Englishwoman trains her daughters to wait on their father and brothers."
"How extensive has your acquaintance been with the English?"