"Fanny!"
"Fact, in Siberia. I read it in the papers."
"Cows can't live in the snow."
"But Siberia isn't all snow."
"Most of it is."
"Isn't it wonderful the things she knows?" said Vivi admiringly. "Do you like brainy women?"
"That depends," said Skippy while he stopped to consider. "I don't know any."
"Oh what a dreadful cynical remark!" said Vivi with another admiring look. "Heavens, I shall be frightened to death what I say to you. I'm sure you're awfully clever yourself. Perhaps I'll have a chance. Clever men hate clever women, don't they?"
"There is certainly something about my particular style of beauty that's bowled her over," thought Skippy to himself.
"Oh I don't know," he said, fatuously unconscious of the virtues he conceded to himself. "Dolly Travers was quite clever, you know."