“Well, I have seen much of the world; but I have not so much of this power as you have.”
“You might have more if—if—” she hesitated. “Well,” she continued, “they say, you know, that men act by reason, women by intuition.”
“Have you any more intuitions?” asked Brandon, earnestly.
“Yes,” said she, mournfully.
“Tell me some.”
“They will not do to tell,” said Beatrice, in the same mournful tone.
“Why not?”
“They are painful.”
“Tell them at any rate.”
“No.”