Uros looked up shyly, then he began to scratch his head, and tried to think of something tremendously difficult.
"Well, do you know that one and no other?" she asked, laughing.
All at once Uros' face brightened up.
"What is it that makes men bald?" and he looked up at her enquiringly.
Had he had a little more guile, he might, perhaps, have seen that this riddle of his was likewise not quite unknown to her; but he saw nothing save her pomegranate lips.
"Oh," said Milena, "their naughtiness, I daresay!"
"No, that's not it."
"Then, I suppose, it's their wit."
"Why?"
"They say that women have long hair and little wit, so I imagine that men have little hair and much wit."