MRS. BROWN. The men who want to control their wives through their purse. Don’t think the exception improves the rule, Josephine.
MRS. TILSBURY. You are almost as bitter against men as the suffragists.
MRS. BROWN. Oh, no. I like men, only I know the faults of some of them. Who is coming here to-night?
MRS. TILSBURY. A Mr. Becker and a Mr. Van Tousel. They have both been rushing Mildred for the last three weeks, but fortunately she has been so interested in her speech that she has hardly noticed them.
MRS. BROWN. Why did you ask them to dinner?
MRS. TILSBURY. Mr. Van Tousel fairly asked himself. His attentions to Mildred have been so costly that I could not refuse him when he suggested coming after the meeting this afternoon, and then I invited Mr. Becker so that we might play Bridge and protect Mildred from a tête-à-tête.
MRS. BROWN. What are they like?
MRS. TILSBURY. Mr. Becker is a lawyer, and Mr. Van Tousel is old family.
MRS. BROWN. Does he find it lucrative?
MRS. TILSBURY. Find what lucrative?