It is
strange that it should be so, but there is some psychological law
at the back of it; and it is certainly true in my experience that
the men who have been most eagerly sought in friendship have not as
a rule been the most open-hearted and expansive natures. I suppose
that a certain law of pursuit holds good, and that people of self-
contained temperament, with a sort of baffling charm, who are
critical and hard to please, excite a certain ambition in those who
would claim their affection.
Women, I have no doubt, live far more in the thought of others, and
desire their intention; they wish to arrive at mutual understanding
and confidence, to explore personality, to pierce behind the
surface, to establish a definite relation. Yet in the matter of
relations with others, women are often, I believe, less
sentimental, and even less tender-hearted than men, and they have a
far swifter and truer intuition of character. Though the two sexes
can never really understand each other's point of view, because no
imagination can cross the gulf of fundamental difference, yet I am
certain that women understand men far better than men understand
women.
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