"We feel important."
"You don't feel grateful, then; only complimented."
"No; we feel that on one of two occasions we have the advantage over a man. We can play him like a big fish on a little angle."
"When is the other occasion?"
"Some women," wrote Podge, "play just the same with the man they marry!"
Duff Salter looked up surprised.
"Isn't that wrong?" he wrote.
She answered mischievously, "A kind of!"
The large, bearded man looked so exceedingly grave that Podge burst out laughing.
"Don't you know," she wrote, "that the propensity to plague a man dependent on you is inherent in every healthy woman?"