“But we women cannot hunt and fish all day!”
“Perhaps it’s like Heaven,” said Pats, “where there’s nothing to do except to realize what a good time you are having.”
“I hope that is not your idea of a woman’s ambition.”
“What better business on a summer’s day?”
“Many things,” replied the priest, “if she has a soul to expand and a mind to cultivate.”
“But I was speaking of the natural, unvarnished woman we all enjoy and are not afraid of.”
24Miss Marshall, in a politely contemptuous manner, inquired, “Then, personally, you find the intelligent woman of high ideals less congenial than–the other kind?”
“I find the superior woman with a gift of language is a thing that makes brave men tremble. I think wisdom should be tempered with mercy.”
After a pause, and with a touch of sarcasm, she replied:
“That is quite interesting. A fresh point of view always broadens the horizon.”