Richard Farnborough glanced at her as if he resented the note of wondering pity in the low tone.
'It's never so bad for the lunatic,' he said, 'as for the sane people looking on.'
'Oh, I don't suppose they mind,' said Hermione—'women like that.'
'It's flattery to call them women. They're sexless monstrosities,' said Paul Filey.
'You know some of them?' Vida raised her head.
'I?' Filey's face was nothing less than aghast at the mere suggestion.
'But you've seen them——?'
'Heaven forbid!'
'But I suppose you've gone and listened to them haranguing the crowds.'