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Ok, this is a paragraph from "Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell. This a wonderful book and I recommend everybody to read it.

It had begun to dawn on him that this same sweet pretty little head was a "good head for figures". In fact, a much better one than his own and the knowledge was disquieting. He was thunderstruck to discover she could swiftly add a long column in her head when he needed a pencil and paper for more than three figures. And fractions presented no difficulties to her at all. He felt there was something unbecoming about a woman understanding fractions and business matters and he believed that, should a woman be so unfortunate as to have such unladylike comprehension, she should pretend not to. Now he disliked talking business with her as much as he had enjoyed it before they were married. Then he had thought it beyond her mental grasp and it had been pleasant to explain things to her. Now he saw that she understood entirely too well and felt the usual masculine indignation at the duplicity of women. Added to it the usual masculine disillusionment in discovering that a woman has a brain.