Suddenly he said, "Do you like teaching, Miss Exeter?"
"I like teaching girls," she answered with a quick inspiration.
He drove his unwilling intelligence to take in this incredible statement.
"Girls," he said, opening his honest blue eyes and wrinkling his forehead. "Why girls?"
"They're so much cleverer than boys."
She tossed it off as if were a well-known and generally admitted fact.
He was gentle with her.
"People think just the opposite," he said.
"Men do."
"I think you're wrong about that, really," Durland said. "I think anyone--even a very just man like Uncle Anthony--would say that women can't think, at least not like men."
"Would he, indeed?" said Pearl. "Well, I don't know him; but he may be the kind of man who prefers inferior people of both sexes."