Corbin in
judging his brain by his topics of conversation. His conversation was
limited to the A B C's of life, with which, up to the time of his
meeting her, his brain had been fed. When, however, she began to cram
it full with all the other letters of the alphabet, it showed itself
just as capable of digesting the economic conditions of Egypt as it
had previously succeeded in mastering the chess-like problems of the
game of football.
Young Corbin had not considered the Home Beautiful, nor Municipal
Government, nor How the Other Half Lives as topics that were worth
his while; but when Miss Warriner showed her interest in them, her
doing so made them worth his while, and he fell upon them greedily.
He even went much further than she had gone, and was not content
merely to theorize and to discuss social questions from the safe
distance of the deck of a dahabiyeh on the Nile, but proposed to at
once put her theories into practice. To this end he offered her a
house in the slums of Boston, rent free, where she could start her
College Settlement. He made out lists of the men he thought would
like to teach there, and he volunteered to pay the expenses of the
experiment until it failed or succeeded.
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