“You are much too acute,” he said, with a sort of silent laughter.
“Just what I have always told Miss Corbin,” remarked Farebrother, energetically. “If you will join me, perhaps we can organize a society for the suppression of clever women, and then we sha’n’t be at their mercy as we now are.”
“And don’t forget a clause guaranteeing that they shall be deprived of all opportunities of a higher education,” suggested Sir Archy, who had learned by that time to forward any joke on hand.
“That would be unnecessary,” said Mr. Romaine. “The higher education does them no harm at all, and gives them much innocent pride and pleasure.”
As the luncheon progressed Miss Letty became more and more in doubt whether she liked Mr. Romaine or not. She regarded him as being somewhere in the neighborhood of
