"A good many people haven't talent and yet do very well, indeed."
"But I don't want to be a shop-girl or anything like that."
"Naturally not."
There was a pause.
"I'm very much interested in the progress women are making," said Emily. "I read all I can get hold of about it. Don't you think it remarkable?"
"I don't think much about it, and I skip everything on the subject."
"Oh, Mr. Rath!"
"I'm a jealous brute. I don't like to realize that a woman can do everything that is a man's work, even to the verge of driving him to starvation, while he can't do any of her work under any circumstances."
"He could wash and cook and sweep."
"Oh, he's invented machines to save her that."