HERBERT. I doubt if woman has real ingenuity; she has greatadaptability. I don't say that she will do the same thing twicealike, like a Chinaman, but she is most cunning in suiting herself tocircumstances.

THE FIRE-TENDER. 0h, if you speak of constructive, creativeingenuity, perhaps not; but in the higher ranges of achievement--thatof accomplishing any purpose dear to her heart, for instance--heringenuity is simply incomprehensible to me.

HERBERT. Yes, if you mean doing things by indirection.