'Bad for the masters, too,' said the girl, 'only they can't see it, or else they don't care what sort of world they leave to their children. If you men weren't so blind, you'd see the women will be in politics what they are in the home—your best friends.'
'Haw! haw! Listen at 'er!'
'With the women you would be strong. Without them you are—what you are!'
The ringing contempt in her tone was more than one gentleman could put up with.
'How do you think the world got on before you came to show it how?'
'It got on very badly. Not only in England—all over the world men have insisted on governing alone. What's the result? Misery and degradation to the masses, and to the few—the rich and high-placed—for them corruption and decline.'
'That's it, always 'ammering away at the men—pore devils!'
'Some people are so foolish as to think we are working against the men.'
'So you are!'