ENID.
Vulgar-minded thing! Learned French on purpose to read Zola’s novels. I don’t suppose that even you have read them.
COLONEL.
Oh, haven’t I? Every one!
ENID.
I don’t believe it, Colonel!
COLONEL.
I’m a shocking old sinner! I never professed to be anything else!
ENID.
I simply don’t believe it! You men exaggerate so! You make yourselves out to be so much worse than you are. Whereas we women pretend to be so much better. That’s the worst of us! We are such hypocrites! Oh, if you knew as much about women as I do——