“That’s true also.”
“Then be reasonable; and understand what I have in store for you.”
“What have you in store for me?”
“This. Listen! In the new social régime women will be on a par with men. That’s a part of the socialist creed. It’s going to be a question of brains, not sex. You can be as much of a leader as I can. Working together we can control a following that will give us almost unlimited power, almost unlimited opportunity. There’s going to be a rich harvest for some one. It may as well be ours as any one’s. Do you understand?”
“I think I do. But that lies pretty well in the future, doesn’t it?”
“One can’t tell just how near or how far away it may be.”
“Well, there’s something I want here and now that will give me more pleasure and satisfaction than all the future glory you can predict for me.”
“What is it?”
“Revenge.”
“What do you mean?”