Max stopped to listen a little satirically; he had never heard a woman speaking in public before. Presently he turned to his guide and found that her eye was on him. "Shall we go on?" he said.
"This does not interest you, then?"
"It is a subject about which I know nothing."
"But you came to learn."
"Well,—is that woman telling the truth?"
"No, not exactly."
"Does she know what she is talking about?"
"Not as well as she ought to."
"Then, isn't that sufficient?"
"You have listened to men here whose statements were just as wide of the mark, and whose proposals were just as useless."