"What's the matter, James? You look dangerous."
His face cleared and he smiled:
"Nobody is really dangerous except to themselves, Betty."
She quoted saucily: "Il n'y a personne qui ne soit dangereux pour quelqu'un!"
Mrs. Hammerton added: "Il faut tout attendre et tout craindre du temps et des hommes."
Reggie Ledyard, much flattered, admitted the wholesale indictment against his sex:
"How can we help it? Man, possessing always dual personality, is naturally inclined toward a double life."
"Man's chief study has been man for so long," observed Mrs. Hammerton, "that the world has passed by, leaving him behind, still engrossed in counting his thumbs. Name your French philosopher who can beat that reflection," she added to Desboro, who smiled absently.
