“I can’t bear the thought of having you go, and I can’t bear the thought of being put aside for a bear,” sobbed Lee.
“Console yourself with the thought that you will never be able to get rid of me for more than two weeks at a time. I do not believe in matrimonial vacations.”
“You will never make another long sporting tour round the world?”
“Never! I have had that. I want a home more than anything on earth.”
“I wish I had more influence over you.”
“You mean that I was your blind besotted slave. When you have forgotten your false ideas of the relations of men and women, and accepted the right one, you will not bother yourself about trifles; and there is no reason why any one on earth should be happier than we.”
“After I have adapted myself!”
He gave her a little shake. “When you have swung round to the old world, and the only logical point of view. A state of society is all wrong where women rule—that is to say, it is in a semi-chaotic transition period. When your greatest country on the face of the earth has shaken down, men and women will occupy exactly the same relative positions that they do in older countries. And there will be fewer divorces.”
“How can you stand up here and lecture me?”
“I don’t want to lecture you. I want to kiss you.”