“Please put me aside and consider Mrs. Clephane,” she insisted. “Is she cleverer than—well, than I am?”
“You are the cleverest woman that I have ever known.”
“Is she more intellectual?”
“Preserve me from the intellectual woman!” he exclaimed.
“Is she more travelled?”
“I think not.”
“Is she superficially more cultured?”
“I should say not.”
“Has she a better disposition?”
“No one could have a better disposition than you have ever shown to me.”