"You did give it to Mrs. Shiffney then! You did! You did!"
"Certainly I did!"
"And then—then you come to me and say that Madame Sennier hasn't read it!"
There was a sound of acute, almost of fierce exasperation in her voice.
"She had not read my copy."
"I say she has!"
"Mrs. Shiffney herself specially advised me not to show it to her."
"To her—to Madame Sennier?"
"Yes."
"Mrs. Shiffney advised you! Oh—you—oh, that men should claim to have keener intellects than we women! Ah! Ah!"