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"Then that's the reason why you don't like society, and why you are so
untalkative to women. I don't like men who think badly of women. Now, I
want to know why you don't like them?"
"Supposing," said Peter, "you were asked to sit down to a game of whist,
without knowing anything of the game. Do you think you could like it?"
"No. Of course not!"
"Well, that is my situation toward women. They have never liked me, nor
treated me as they do other men. And so, when I am put with a
small-talk woman, I feel all at sea, and, try as I may, I can't please
her. They are never friendly with me as they are with other men."
"Rubbish!" said Dorothy. "It's what you do, not what she does, that
makes the trouble. You look at a woman with those grave eyes and that
stern jaw of yours, and we all feel that we are fools on the spot, and
really become so. I never stopped being afraid of you till I found out
that in reality you were afraid of me. You know you are. You are afraid
of all women.


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