"Mother?she's used to it, and she's tougher than you, liddle creature."He could not account for it. Women had excited him before, but merely physically. He took it for granted that they had minds and souls like men, but he had not thought much about that aspect of them or allowed it to enter his calculations. Of late he had scarcely troubled about women at all, having something better to think of."See, Roland," said the baroness, holding the gloves towards her husband; "see, what a pretty gift I have received since you left us!"