"Certainly."
"Well, for my part, I have all the rights I want," said Miss Alice.
"I should think you did," said Jim Fellows; "but it's hard on us."
"Well, I think that is all infidelity," said another—"goes against the Bible. Do you think women ought to speak in public?"
"Ristori and Fanny Kemble, for instance," said I.
"Oh, well—they are speaking other people's words; but their own?"
"Why not as well as in private?"
"Oh, because—why, I think it's dreadful; don't you?"
"I can't perceive why. I am perfectly charmed to hear women speak, in public or private, who have anything good or agreeable to say."