"And by this thing I found the unfitness of women to handle public affairs, for the tender hearts, which make good wives and mothers and daughters, unfit us for the judicial conduct needed in public matters—and I'm glad they do," she finished, with a smile.
"It's not," Danvers amended, as he stood with his arm about her, "that women have not the ability to do anything they want," for he was ever chivalrous, "but that God in his wisdom gave them a great and special work, and they should be kept strong and safe and holy for its fulfilment."
"But it is not given to all women to choose what they shall do," said Sandy.
"And few of them are gifted creatures, anyhow," said Hugh.
"And one life can never be as another," said I; but the older baby, who looked up just then, said, "Mother."
"And that one word tells the whole story," cried Nancy, with a passion of tenderness in her voice, laying the child's head against her bosom.
[ 10]"Famous Forgeries," Benson.