"That's no great thing."
"It's a fine thing," he said, "and it may be a good thing, too!"
She laughed:
"To be a woman!" she said. "But what does the world make of women?"
"You have to defend yourself."
"But goodness never lasts long."
"Then you can't have much of it."
"Possibly. And then, I don't think one ought to suffer too much. There is a point beyond which suffering withers you up."
He was just about to tell her how he pitied her, but he remembered how she had received it a short while before….
"You'll only talk about the advantages of the part of comforter…."