Lady Garribardine laughed appreciatively.
"You are quite right. I should not have asked you that, since we were up upon a plane of discussion in which even women do not lie to one another!"
"If Your Ladyship will permit me to say so, women have very little notion of truth, I think!"
"Oh! that is too bad. You must always stand up for your sex."
"Forgive me for differing, but I should be acting from good nature in that case, not from justice."
Lady Garribardine was delighted.
"So you think we are not truthful as a company?"
"Oh, no, we have no love of abstract truth, truth for itself. When we are truthful in our general dealings with people, it is either because we have decent characters or religious views, or for our own ends, not from a detached love of truth."
"What a cynic! And how about men?"