“Well, it seems to mean a great many things.”
“It means everything that could make a gym unnecessary. It once meant very little, it seems to me; if we are to believe what our grandmothers tell us. Now it means as much to a girl as to her brother.”
“It doesn’t mean quite as much as it might if there were more brothers—there.”
“True. Our summer groups always make me think of college. We are not through seeing too much of one another when we graduate. Presently we are in clubs or gym classes, and, in the summer, man is an exceptional element.”
“And that is not good for him. It is not good for him to be in such a majority in the city nor in such a minority in the country. But I don’t see what we can do about it.”
“I suppose each sex will have to go on living out the problem for itself. That seems likely to keep both sexes busy.”
“It is keeping your sex busy.”
“You never can tell about us.”
“I admit that.”