"Sure."
Susan walked on thoughtfully.
"There's where a man has the advantage," she said. "He can really work toward the thing he wants."
"Well, girls ought to have the same chance," Billy said generously. "Now I was talking to Mrs. Carroll Sunday--"
"Oh, how are the Carrolls?" asked Susan, diverted for an instant.
"Fine. They were awfully disappointed you weren't along.--And she was talking about that very thing. And she said her three girls were going to work just as Phil and Jim do."
"But Billy, if a girl has a gift, yes. But you can't put a girl in a foundry or a grocery."
"Not in a foundry. But you could in a grocery. And she said she had talked to Anna and Jo since they were kids, just as she did to the boys, about their work."
"Wouldn't Auntie think she was crazy!" Susan smiled. After a while she said more mildly:
"I don't believe Peter Coleman is quite as bad as the others!"