“Do you like her?”

“No. I like very few women. I don’t understand them.”

“At any rate you understand—say Miss Schley—better than a man would.”

“Oh—a man!”

“I believe all women think all men fools.”

Lady Holme laughed, not very gaily.

“Don’t they?” he insisted.

“In certain ways, in certain relations of life, I suppose most men are—rather short-sighted.”

“Like Mr. Bry.”

“Mr. Bry is the least short-sighted man I know. That’s why he always wears an eyeglass.”