MR. MELVIN. Am I a thing?
MILDRED. Well, people then. I have seen lots of people.
MR. MELVIN. (Suspiciously.) Men?
MILDRED. Men and women both. (To change the subject.) I don’t know but what you were right about the Daughters of the Danaïdes, Mr. Melvin.
MR. MELVIN. Right how?
MILDRED. About their drawing water in a sieve. I am beginning to be very discouraged. We do not seem to accomplish anything. There doesn’t seem to be any prospect of our ever really accomplishing anything, and sometimes I am not sure that the others care; even Mrs. Thom seems to enjoy the excitement more than she is concerned about results.
MR. MELVIN. Why, do you know, I am beginning to be of just the opposite opinion and to believe that societies like the Daughters of the Danaïdes do a lot of good in teaching women to organize and to think and to prepare themselves eventually for the vote.
MILDRED. Then we are just as far apart in agreeing as ever—since we have both turned around.
MR. MELVIN. Not at all, for we have each had two points of view now and can sympathize better with each other.
MILDRED. I am so glad to talk with you. I feel so lonely. Josephine and I have so little in common and Mrs. Thom and Sophie have such different ideas from mine. I am afraid I am not strong minded.