I do not doubt he has a low opinion of women too. Gallantry is often a cloak for contempt. - Elizabeth Peters

His masculinity was only too apparent

The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.

You know how your eyes can deceive you at times — how a group of shapes and shadows can take on a certain form and then shift into another? It wasn't really like that; there was no physical change in him, he was exactly the same as he'd always been. I knew every line of his long body and every curl on his disheveled black head. I'd just never seen him before. you know what I'm trying to say, don't you? The change is in the heart.