“And you would be prejudiced in his favour, so that you would receive his statement much more readily.”
“Are the women on earth always prejudiced in favour of their husbands?”
“I do not know. I have never distinctly lived on earth.”
“Doesn’t it agree with you?”
I laughed. “I have not wit enough to grasp the human intellect,” I replied. “I had always complimented myself that there was a great similarity between the two worlds.”
“How old are you?” she queried abruptly.
“Alternately as old and young as I appear to be.”
“So am I, so are we all,” she observed softly. “Is not the scene round here magnificent?”
“Yes,” I replied. “Are those forms on the horizon hills or clouds?”
“They are hills,” she said. “Beyond the hills lies one of our great cities. Some day you shall go there—it is very interesting. But now let us return to the house, as I have much to do before the mid-day meal.”