"Perhaps just for that reason."
"I don't understand you. There's a vagueness sometimes about Dutch people which we English don't understand, something like a reflection of your beautiful skies in your character."
"Do you never doubt? Do you feel sure of your ideas on the training of children?"
"I have studied children in schools, in crèches and in their homes and I have acquired very decided ideas. And I work in accordance with these ideas for the people of the future. I will send you my pamphlet, containing the gist of my speeches at the congress. Are you working on another pamphlet now?"
"No, I regret to say."
"Why not? We must all fight shoulder to shoulder, if we are to conquer."
"I believe I have said all that I had to say. I wrote what I did on impulse, from personal experience. And then...."
"Yes?"
"Then things changed. All women are different and I never approved of generalizing. And do you believe that there are many women who can work for a universal object with a man's thoroughness, when they have found a lesser object for themselves, a small happiness, such as a love to satisfy their own ego, in which they can be happy? Don't you think that every woman has slumbering inside her a selfish craving for her own love and happiness and that, when she has found this, the outside world and the future cease to interest her?"
"Possibly. But so few women find it."