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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: and unattractive and negligible--negligible, that is the
exact word--to them. YOU can't look at a woman for five
minutes without losing sight of her in a mist of imaginative
excitement. Because she looks back at you. I have the
privilege of the negligible--which is a cool head. Miss
Grammont has a startled and matured mind, an original mind.
Yes. And there is something more to be said. Her intelligence
is better than her character."
"I don't quite see what you are driving at."
"The intelligence of all intelligent women is better than
their characters. Goodness in a woman, as we understand it,
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