Part 3, Chapter 1

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌​‌​‌​​​​‌‌‌​‌‌​​​​​​‌‌​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‌​‌​​​‌‌⁠WHAT THE WOMEN DID

For a great number of years past, innumerable reviewers have been so kind as to class me as "one of the younger novelists," and with the passing of time I have acquired a certain affection for the status. But I have to confess myself unlike my brethren in this—I don't know all about women. Indeed, twenty Philip Esdailes poking about twenty cellars are clearer to me than some of t