MR. VAN TOUSEL. Women are active in so many directions nowadays. The Society of Colonial Caudlers shows how much they have done in the line of historical research.
MR. BECKER. It is a pity they don’t spend a little more activity in housekeeping. That little Pole would make an excellent cook probably.
MILDRED. Oh, Mr. Becker, Sophie has too much education to do housework.
MRS. TILSBURY. (In desperation.) Were you at the meeting this afternoon, Mr. Becker?
MR. BECKER. What meeting, Mrs. Tilsbury? I was at a Bank Directors’ meeting, an executive meeting of an Insurance Company, and at a meeting of a special committee of the State Bar Association to draft some measures which we hope to recommend to the Legislature. I was at all these meetings. Which one do you refer to, Mrs. Tilsbury?
MRS. TILSBURY. I meant the Woman’s Suffrage meeting.
MR. BECKER. I did not know anything about it. (Turning to MILDRED.) You were not there I hope, Miss Tilsbury.
MILDRED. Indeed I was, Mr. Becker.
MRS. TILSBURY. Why Mildred was one of the principal speakers. That is why I thought you would be there.
MR. VAN TOUSEL. Yes, Miss Tilsbury made her maiden speech—or should I say the maiden’s speech? I congratulate you. It was fine.