"Yes," she said. "There's the old Relief Committee, and the Belgian Committee, and the Soldiers' Comforts' Committee, and the Hospital Visitors' Committee, and the Children's Meals' Committee, and the Entertainments' Committee and the——"
"Enough," I said. "I will take the rest for granted. But isn't there a danger that with all these committees——?"
"I know," she said; "you're going to say something about overlapping."
"Your insight," I said, "is wonderful. How did you know?"
"I've noticed," she said, "that when men form committees they always declare that there sha'n't be any overlapping, and then, according to their own account, they get to work and all overlap like mad. Now we women don't worry about overlapping. Most of us don't know what it means—I don't myself—but we appoint presidents and treasurers and secretaries, and then we go ahead and do things. If we were only left to ourselves we should never call a meeting of any committee after we'd once started it. It's the men who insist on committees meeting."
"Yes, and on keeping them from breaking their rules."
"What's the use of having committees if you can't break their silly old rules?"
"Amiable anarchist," I said, "let us abandon committees and return to Mrs. Rowley."
"Well," she said, "we soon got on to the War."
"You might easily do that," I said. "The subject has its importance. What does Mrs. Rowley think of it?"