“You are an extremist, for I can assure you that you were actually rude to her.”
“Actually rude, I don’t think; but I admit that I was cool and not very amiable.”
“And why were you?”
“First, because it is politic of me, since Don Calixto’s family do not care for Amparito; and secondly, because the little creature didn’t please me, either.”
“And why didn’t she please you? For no reason at all?”
“I am not partial to the platyrrhine races.”
“What nonsense! And you wish to look at things clearly! A man that judges people by their noses!”
“It seems to you little to go on? A brunette girl, brachicephalic and rather platyrrhine.... There is no more to say.”
“And if she had been blond, dolichocephalic, and long-nosed, she would have seemed all right to you.”
“Her ethnic type would have seemed all right.”