Miss Levering opened wide eyes—a glint of something like amazed laughter crossed her face, as she repeated—
'They are sexless, you think?'
'We find them so,' said the other, firmly.
'Why'—Miss Levering smiled outright—'that's what they say of you.'
'Well, it's nonsense, like the rest of what they say.'
The accusation of sexlessness brought against the curled darlings of society by these hard-working, hard-hitting sisters of theirs was not the least ironic thing in the situation.
'Why do you call them——?'
'Because we see they have no sex-pride. If they had, they couldn't do the things they do.'
'What sort of things?'