Monica emboldened herself to ask what the object was for which her friend worked.
“How shall I put it?” replied the other, smiling. “To make women hard-hearted.”
“Hard-hearted? I think I understand.”
“Do you?”
“You mean that you like to see them live unmarried.”
Rhoda laughed merrily.
“You say that almost with resentment.”
“No—indeed—I didn’t intend it.”
Monica reddened a little.
“Nothing more natural if you have done. At your age, I should have resented it.”