CHAPTER XLIV

A man says, “There’s no understanding a woman,” because when they come to a crossroads of thought or feeling, he turns to the right and she to the left, and they arrive at different goals or come round into the same highway, according as the roads run. Noll was befuddled with Dimny’s seeming inconsistency. Yet she was consistent enough; their minds had simply taken different paths. He thought: “She loves her father; he has been in the Arctic regions in danger for a long time. She and her mother and her sister need …