“And not avoid first-year men?”
“Exactly so.”
“Because they are foolish, and therefore fit company for ladies. Now, really—”
“No, no; because they are foolish, and, therefore, they ought to be made wise; and ladies are wiser than dons.”
“And therefore, duller, for all wise people, you said, were dull.”
“Not all wise people; only people who are wise by cramming,—as dons; but ladies are wise by inspiration.”
“And first-year men, are they foolish by inspiration and agreeable by cramming, or agreeable by inspiration and foolish by cramming?”
“They are agreeable by inspiration in the society of ladies.”
“Then they can never be agreeable, for you say they never see ladies.”
“Not with the bodily eye, but with the eye of fancy.”