“How?”
“In me. Do you think an education makes a man act different—gives him different ideas about his actions—in his dealin’s with women, for instance?”
“I expect it does. Education should make a man more considerate of women—it is refining.”
“Then you reckon a man that ain’t had any education is coarse, an’ don’t know how to treat a woman?”
“I didn’t say that; I said education should make a man treat women that way.”
“But it don’t always?”
“I think not. I have known men—well educated men—who failed to treat women as they should be treated.”
“Then that ain’t what you might call a hard-an’-fast rule—it don’t always work. An’ there’s hope for any man who ain’t had schoolin’—if he’s wantin’ to be a man.”
“Certainly.”
“But an educated man can’t claim ignorance when he aims to mistreat a woman. That’s how it figures up, ain’t it?”