“Ah!” exclaimed Corydon, quickly, “but people aren’t to blame for the lives they live!”
“Why not?” he asked.
“Because—they can’t help them. They are bound fast.”
“They should break loose.”
“That is easy for you to say,” said Corydon. “You have no ties.”
“I did have them—I might have them still. But I broke them.”
“Ah, but you are a man!”
“What difference does that make?”
“It makes all the difference in the world. You can earn money, you can go away by yourself. But suppose you were a girl—shut up in a home, and told that that was your ‘sphere’?”
“I’d fight,” said Thyrsis—“I’d break my way out somehow, never fear. If one doesn’t break out, it simply means that his desire is not strong enough.”