and I must go directly. Besides, if I had time, you wouldn’t understand. It is a purely formal document, full of legal technicalities, and all that sort of thing. Come! come! sign your name, and let us have done as soon as possible.”
“I ought surely to know what I am signing, Sir Percival, before I write my name?”
“Nonsense! What have women to do with business? I tell you again, you can’t understand it.”
“At any rate,
and I must go directly. Besides, if I had time, you wouldn’t understand. It is a purely formal document, full of legal technicalities, and all that sort of thing. Come! come! sign your name, and let us have done as soon as possible.”
“I ought surely to know what I am signing, Sir Percival, before I write my name?”
“Nonsense! What have women to do with business? I tell you again, you can’t understand it.”
“At any rate,
