"Proofs?"
"Yes."
"Do you write?"
"I have just begun to."
"A story?"
"No, an article."
"An article? What about?"
She gave him the long title. He looked at her open-mouthed. She laughed gaily:
"You would never have believed it, would you?"
"Santa Maria!" he murmured in surprise, unaccustomed in his own world to "modern" women, taking part in a feminist movement. "Dutch?"