"Who is as masculinely logical as thee," the Lady said.

"The meaning of a man's display of emotions depends a great deal on how he has performed masculinely in the past," he added.

He glanced at Danny Chavasse, seated on the couch by the wall to her right, masculinely elegant as ever.

As he dozed off he had time only for one fleeting thought, and he grinned with vicious pleasure at the picture of John Bellew in the days to follow, masculinely back-tripping his four hundred pounds up Chilcoot.