"The thing for me to do," said Brown rather bitterly to his father, "is to go out into the world and investigate far and wide."
"Investigate what?" asked his father.
"Woman!" said Brown sturdily.[117]
"There's only one trouble about that."
"What's that?"
"Woman," said his father, "is likely to do the investigating. This household knows more about you than you do about it."
Brown smiled. So did his father.
"Son," said the latter, "what have you learned about women without knowing anything about them?"
"Nothing, naturally," said Brown.
"Then you will never have anything more than that to say about them," remarked Brown senior.