Miss Field made a little grimace.
“Perhaps,” she admitted. “But do you know the impression of Germany that I am taking home with me? It is that Germany is a country run solely in the interests of the male half of creation. Women are tolerated only because they are necessary in the scheme of things.”
Stewart laughed.
“There was a book published a year or two ago,” he said, “called ‘Germany and the Germans.’ Perhaps you read it?”
“No.”
“I remember it for one remark. Its author says that Germany is the only country on earth where the men’s hands are better kept than the women’s.”
Miss Field clapped her hands in delight.
“Delicious!” she cried. “Splendid! And it is true,” she added, more seriously. “Did you see the women cleaning the streets in Munich?”
“Yes.”
“And harvesting the grain, and spreading manure, and carrying great burdens—doing all the dirty work and the heavy work. What are the men doing, I should like to know?”