“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.”