"I wonder what makes you think that?"
"Oh, a medically trained man notices little things."
"So does a woman. But I haven't seen—— Has Dee begun to awake?"
"Oh, no! She's quite unaware of herself in that way. Very likely she won't until after she's married."
"After? Won't that be a little late?"
"It's the first awakening a lot of women have. And a harsh one for some."
"What a lot of unpleasant things doctors know about life!"
"Life's got its unpleasant phases."
"Particularly for women.... Yet I'm glad I've been a woman." A little, sensuous quiver passed over her tenderly modelled lips. She smiled, sighed, and reverted to her other thought. "But you're going to have your hands full with the Fentrisses. Really, you'd do better if you married one."
"Perhaps I shouldn't do as well. I might be too taken up with the one."