"I think that in so far as a man is normal he understands the needs of the people. It's normal for a man to marry and have a family. My governor will be a bigger man, if he wins this girl in the play."
"But all that interrupts him, takes his mind off his bigger usefulness."
"The bigger the man, the bigger his usefulness. Don't you see, you've got to feed all a man's needs, or a woman's, to get the highest results?"
"Do you think everybody needs this, this food, as you call it?"
"Do I think every baby needs mother's milk?" she inquired.
"They don't all get it, and they live just the same."
"Yes, but you can never say how much stronger they would have been with it," she smiled.
"Irish sophistry," he remarked, but he found that talk recurring to him. She had phrased his own suspicion.
"I take your advice about my campaign," he said.
"So do I take yours about the play."