"I see you've no sympathy with the advanced woman."
"Yes, I have. I'm very sorry for her. A nice mess the next generation will be."
"Oh, dear."
"My one comfort is that boys take after their mothers, and I'm looking to see a future generation of men so strong-minded that they smash ladies back to where they belong—in the rear with the tents."
"Goodness, Mr. Rath, then you don't like any of the ways things are going?"
"Of course I don't. Once upon a time a busy man's time was sacred; now any woman who feels like taking it, appropriates it mercilessly."
"I should lock the door, if I felt that way. But now really, don't you think that we might speak quite openly and frankly?"
Lorenzo began to put up his paints.
"I want to get to the bottom of a lot of things."
"Well?"