Love,-And the Philosopher

"YOU women are always so sentimental!" said the Philosopher, leaning back in a comfortable garden chair and lazily flicking off the ash from an excellent cigar;-"You overdo the thing. You carry every emotion to an extreme limit. It shows a lamentable lack of judgment." She listened to him with the tiniest quiver of a smile, but offered no reply. She did not even look at the Philosopher. There were many other things which (apparently) engaged her attention, so that unless you knew her very w...