At a dinner party, several of the guests were arguing whether men or women were more trustworthy. „No woman,“ said one man, scornfully, „can keep a secret.“ „I don’t know about that,“ huffily answered a woman guest. „I have kept my age a secret since I was twenty-one.“ „You’ll let it out some day,“ the man insisted. „I hardly think so!“ responded the lady. „When a woman has kept a secret for twenty-seven years, she can keep it forever.“
