CHAPTER SIXSusanna closed the book with a bang.
“Well, that is finished,” she sighed, “and I think for the good of your education we now ought to read something in Italian or English.”
“I am not worrying about my education,” Fyfe answered, “but my entertainment and I find that English novels are either heavy or too insipid to be interesting and the Italian novels too emotional.”
“You might be talking about women.” Susanna teased him. “Do you dislike women who are emotional?”
“That is one of those questions that there is no real answer to,” Fyfe replied. “If I say ‘yes’ you will infer that I like cold frigid women who are usually, of course, English and if I say ‘no’ you will think that I want someone throwing dramatics all the time if they are not being hysterical.”
Susanna laughed.
