她想心理学。这就是他们现在所说的，但是在她看来，这比这更古老。那是女人的知识，就是这样。了解男人的行为方式以及如何说服他们做某事，如果一个人以正确的方式接近此事。
(Psychology, she thought; that is what they called it these days, but in her view it was something much older than that. It was woman's knowledge, that was what it was; knowledge of how men behaved and how they could be persuaded to do something if one approached the matter in the right way.)