KATE. I did think so.
SUSAN, (threateningly) Oh, I'll teach you how to treat husbands! (PAULINE enters and overhears, unseen. She gradually comes closer to them) I'll teach you how to treat all men. For ages man has crushed us under his cruel heel.
KATE. Has he?
SUSAN. But we will trample him under foot.
KATE. Will we?
SUSAN. We must throttle him. We must crush him.
KATE. Must we?
SUSAN. Pooh! He's a worm. We will do without him. We will drive him from the land. Absolutely. Man is a by-gone institution. I class him with the stage coach and the dodo bird. Woman can do his work better than he can. He must be driven from the land.
PAULINE. But, now, mam, if he's driven from the land, he'll be taking a death of cold in the water.
SUSAN. So much the better. The object that should burn in every true woman's heart is the utter extermination of man. (to KATE) You have felt a man's cruelty. (KATE wipes her eyes)