"You are so strong and simple—so wise and brave—and so very weak and foolish and timid!"
"Timid?" said I.
"Timid!" nodded she.
"I am a vast fool!" I acknowledged.
"And I never knew a man anything like you before, Peter!"
"And you have known many, I understand?"
"Very many."
"Yes—you told me so once before, I believe."
"Twice, Peter; and each time you became very silent and gloomy! Now you, on the other hand," she continued, "have known very few women?"
"And my life has been calm and unruffled in consequence!"