You are only on the threshold, and yet you have arrived at a conclusion?
GERALD.
So much is obvious. It is a conclusion to which literature and the higher culture inevitably tend. The awakened conscience of woman is already alive to it.
COLONEL.
Conscience of woman! What are you talking about? I’ve known a good many women in my time, and they hadn’t a conscience amongst ’em! There’s only one thing can awaken the conscience of woman, and that is being found out.
GERALD.
I am speaking of innocent women.
COLONEL.
I never met one.
GERALD.