"
"Your aunt-by-marriage. It's just as bad. Anyhow, she preferred you
to any of us, didn't she?"
"Perhaps because she didn't know _me_."
"Have it so. _But_ she did whatever she did because she was an old
devil of a woman, and an old devil of a woman can give points to
Satan. If," cried the doctor, vehemently, "there is one great reason
why a man should be glad he's a man, it is because he will never
live to be an old woman!"
"That depends upon one's point of view," I told him firmly. "Now,
I'm glad I'm a woman because I shall never live to be an old man.
Old ladies are far, far nicer. Have you ever known an old lady who
thought herself captivating? Have you ever known any old man who
didn't think he could be if he wished?"
"Yes," shouted the doctor, "and no!--in both cases! There is no sex
in fools. There is no age limit, either."
"The Talmud says: 'An old woman in the house is a blessing; but an
old man is a nuisance.'"
"I don't give a bobtailed scat what the Talmud says. I know what I
know.--Miss Gaines, I leave it to you."
"Why, I like them both, when they're nice; and I'm sorry for them
both when they're not.
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