Talk:The Mother Hunt
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by Rex Stout (1963)
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Chapter 1, page 2 (Bantam edition, 1975)
“How old are you?”
That was for my benefit. He had a triple conviction: that a) his animus towards women made it impossible for him to judge any single specimen; that b) I needed only an hour with any woman alive to tag her; and that c) he could help out by asking some blunt impertinent question, his favourite one being how old are you. It’s hopeless to try to set him right.
