The Professor's House
“What are you thinking about, Godfrey?” she
said presently. “Just then you were smiling—
quite agreeably!”
“I was thinking,” he answered absently, “about Euripides; how, when he was an old man, he went and lived in a cave by the sea, and it was thought queer, at the time. It seems that houses had become insupportable to him. I wonder whether it was because he had observed women so closely all his life.”
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