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She looked down now
from her noble height upon her little niece with startled eyes.
"Really, Aline, you have a trick of asking the most disconcerting
and improper questions."
"Perhaps it is because I find life disconcerting and improper."
"Life? A young girl should not discuss life."
"Why not, since I am alive? You do not suggest that it is an
impropriety to be alive?"
"It is an impropriety for a young unmarried girl to seek to know
too much about life. As for your absurd question about men, when
I remind you that man is the noblest work of God, perhaps you will
consider yourself answered."
Mme. de Sautron did not invite a pursuance of the subject. But Mlle.
de Kercadiou's outrageous rearing had made her headstrong.
"That being so," said she, "will you tell me why they find such an
overwhelming attraction in the immodest of our sex?"
Madame stood still and raised shocked hands. Then she looked down
her handsome, high-bridged nose.
"Sometimes - often, in fact, my dear Aline - you pass all
understanding.


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