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In an affair of this kind it is best to keep one's own counsel. I find / it necessary to warn myself in this fashion, for it has ever been that / women have found an easy prey in me. I know, moreover, that Bellwattle / is already curious of my confusion at breakfast. What she thinks it / would be impossible to say; but that she has finally made up her mind / about it, of that I am certain. Such a child of Nature as she is must / have instinct alive in her to her finger-tips.
Doubtless, she imagines I am in love. Without the shadow of a doubt, / she believes a woman to be in some way concerned. For here it is that / women think more elementally, more simply and, therefore, nearer to the / truth than their brothers. There is nothing that a lonely man can do, / but what a woman will trace therein the influence of her sex. And it is / damnable to have to admit it, but she is right.